The Bostoner rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, the first American-born Chasidic leader, has died. Horowitz died Saturday following a heart attack over the summer from which he never fully recovered.

The Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, passed away at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem on Sabbath. The funeral will leave his study hall at Har Nof in Jerusalem at 9:30 pm Saturday ...

As the Rebbe's bulletproof van arrived in front of the town's central synagogue, dozens of local residents began making their way to greet the Rebbe, a member of the Council of Torah Sages of Israel ...

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A Jew once dreamed he was a rebbe. He shared his dream with the Bostoner Rebbe. The Bostoner was unimpressed, asking, “did any chasidim dream that you were their rebbe?” People who find rebbes and ...

My late husband and I were very close to the Bostoner Rebbe, zt”l, and many memories came flooding back when he passed away earlier this in Yerushalayim. My husband and I first met the Rebbe in 1974.

In the mid ‘60’s, when I was in high school and slowly becoming observant, I used to spend my Erev Pesachs in Brookline, Mass. baking Matzah with Reb Levi Yitzchak Horowitz (1921-2009), the Bostoner ...

There was a problem. Reb Pinchas was studying Kabala in Jerusalem and didn’t want to leave for America. But Reb Pinchas was summoned to Galicia, then part of the Russian Empire for a rabbinic tribunal ...

The Bostoner rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, the first American-born Chasidic leader, has died. JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Bostoner rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, the first American-born Chasidic ...

The Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, the first American-born Hasidic leader, died December 5. He never fully recovered from a heart attack that he suffered during the summer. He was 88.

I was sure I would get a lecture about the holiness of Yiddish and the fact that my father had stood by the sefer Torah and named me after two wonderful women who had Yiddish names. But the Rebbe ...