Menachem Mendel Schneersohn also known as the Tzemach Tzedek was an Orthodox rebbe, leading 19th-century posek, and the third rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
Horowitz is a Levitical Ashkenazi surname deriving from the Horowitz family though it can also be a non Jewish surname as well. Other variants of the name include Harowitz, Harrwitz, Harwitz, Horovitz, Horvitz, Horwicz, Horwitz, Hourwitz, Hurewicz, Hurwicz, Hurwitz, Gerovich, Gurovich, Gurevich, Gurvich, Gourevitch, Orowitz and Urwitz.
Shotz is a Hasidic dynasty originating in the city of Suceava, Romania.
Boston is a Hasidic dynasty, originally established in 1915 by Rabbi Pinchas David Horowitz, a scion of the Nikolsburg Hasidic dynasty. Following the custom of European Chassidic Courts, where the Rebbe was called after the name of his city, the Bostoner branch of Hasidic Judaism was named after Boston, Massachusetts. The most senior and well-known of the Bostoner Rebbes in contemporary times was Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, who died in December 2009.
Sanz is a Hasidic dynasty originating in the city of Sanz in Galicia. The dynasty was founded by the rebbe Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793–1876) who was the rabbi of Nowy Sącz and the author of the work Divrei Chaim by which name he is known as well.
Ropshitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, or rabbinical family and group, who are descendants of Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz (1760–1827). Ropshitz is the name of a town in southern Poland, known in Polish as Ropczyce.
Menachem Mendel Torem of Rimanov also known as Mendele Rimanover was a famous Hasidic Rebbe and one of the first four distributors of the Hasidic movement in Poland and Galicia together with Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin, Rabbi Yisrael Hopstein and Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel.
Levi Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz was a rabbi and the second rebbe of the Boston Hasidic dynasty founded by his father, Rabbi Pinchos Dovid Horowitz. He was the first American-born Hasidic rebbe and a champion of Orthodox Jewish outreach, reaching out to many students in the Boston area through his New England Chassidic Center. He was also the founder of ROFEH International, a community-based medical referral and hospitality liaison support agency.
Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah is the supreme rabbinical policy-making council of the Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah movements in Israel; and of Agudath Israel of America in the United States. Members are usually prestigious Roshei Yeshiva or Hasidic rebbes, who are also usually regarded by many Haredi Jews to be the Gedolim ("great/est") sages of Torah Judaism. Before the Holocaust, it was the supreme authority for the World Agudath Israel in Europe.
The Kopust branch of the Chabad Hasidic movement was founded in 1866 by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schneersohn after the death of the third rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. The movement is named after the town Kopys in the Vitebsk Region of present-day Belarus, where Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schneersohn settled after his father's death.
Bostoner Rebbe may refer to:
Nikolsburg is the name of several Hasidic dynasties descending from Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz, who held a rabbinic post in Nikolsburg, Margraviate of Moravia, from where the dynasty gets in name. Reb Shmelke was a disciple of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch and held rabbinic positions in Rychwal and Sieniawa, before becoming the Chief Rabbi of Nikolsburg. He had several notable disciples such as Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin and Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev. Nikolsburg Hasidism and it's branches are generally known to be more liberal than contemporary Hasidic counterparts. The idea of loving all Jews is a central tenet of Nikolsburg Hasidism.
The Horowitz family is a Levitical Ashkenazi rabbinic family, who are among the most prominent rabbinic families in Europe and are generally considered to possess the oldest and best recorded Levitical pedigree. The family chiefly descends from R. Joseph HaLevi who settled in Hořovice, Bohemia in 1391 and adopted the surname "Ish-Horowitz".
Mayer Alter Horowitz is an American Hasidic rabbi. Since 2009, he has been the Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem.
Melitz was a Galician Hassidic dynastic sect, a branch of the Ropshitz Hasidic sect. The progenitor of the dynasty was Rabbi Ya'akov Horowitz, the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Ropshitz.
Dinov is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, descended from Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Dinov, also called "the Bnei Yisaschar" after his popular work: בני יששכר [Bene Yiśaśkhar]. Dinov is the Yiddish name of Dynów, a town in southern Poland, in the historic region of Galicia.
Rabbi Pinchas David Horowitz, was a Hasidic rebbe and the founder of the Boston Hasidic dynasty, one of the first Hasidic courts in America.
The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives is the oldest and most important Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. It is approximately five centuries old, having been first leased from the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf in the sixteenth century. The cemetery contains anywhere between 70,000 and 150,000 tombs, including the tombs of famous figures in early modern Jewish history. It is considered to be the largest and holiest Jewish cemetery on earth.
Chaim Avrohom Horowitz was a Polish-born American rabbi. In 1985, he became Bostoner Rebbe, Grand Rabbi of the Boston Jewish Hasidic sect, established in 1915 by his grandfather Pinchas Duvid Horowitz, and named after his city, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
