Alter Chanoch Henoch Hakohen Leibowitz (c. 1918His date of birth is uncertain, but his passport read June 2, 1918. – April 15, 2008) was an

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who was

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(dean) of

Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim (also known as the Rabbinical Seminary of America) is an Orthodox Yeshiva in the United States, based in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York. It is primarily an American, Lithuanian-style Talmudic Yeshiva. The Yeshiva is ...

, which was founded by his father Rabbi Chaim Dovid Hakohen Leibowitz in 1933.

Biography

Leibowitz was born in 1918 in

Šalčininkai Šalčininkai (, , yi, סאָלעטשניק ''Solechnik'', be, Салечнікі) is a town in Vilnius County, Lithuania, situated south-east of Vilnius, near the border with Belarus. Šalčininkai attained the town status in 1956 and is now ...

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, and was the only son of Rabbi

Dovid Leibowitz Dovid Leibowitz (1887–1941) was a leading rabbi and disciple of prewar Europe's Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, who went on to found the Rabbinical Seminary of America, better known today as "Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen" or the ''"Cho ...

. He came to America in 1926 when his father was hired by

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as a teacher. In 1933, his father left Torah Vodaath and founded

. His father's death in 1941 left him in charge of the yeshiva in his early 20s. He built a network of Jewish educational institutions in the

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and

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

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reportedly called Leibowitz “the most honest person in the state of New York”.

Notable students

His students include the following rabbis: * Dovid Harris, ''

rosh yeshiva Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primar ...

'' (dean) of Yeshiva Chafetz Chaim * Akiva Grunblatt, ''rosh yeshiva'' of Yeshiva Chafetz Chaim * Elyakim Rosenblatt, ''rebbi'' in Yeshiva Chafetz Chaim and later ''rosh yeshiva'' of Yeshiva Kesser Torah * Moshe Chait, the ''rosh yeshiva'' of Yeshiva Chafetz Chaim of Jerusalem *

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, ''rosh yeshiva'' of Talmudic Institute of Upstate New York *

Baruch Chait Baruch (Burry) Chait is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, musician and composer. He is Rosh Yeshiva of the Israeli high school Maarava Machon Rubin. Personal life He is the son of Rabbi Moshe Chait, the former Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivath Chafetz Chaim o ...

, ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Israeli high school Maarava Machon Rubin * Mordechai Goldstein, ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Diaspora Yeshiva on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. * Chaim Dov Altusky , the author of Seforim “Chidushei Basra”

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*Video of Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz's second wedding
Rabbi Henoch Lebowitz's wedding
1910s births 2008 deaths Lithuanian emigrants to the United States American Haredi rabbis Rosh yeshivas People from Šalčininkai Lithuanian Haredi rabbis {{US-rabbi-stub

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