Historical records matching Raichel Horowitz
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About Raichel Horowitz
Rebbetzin Horowitz was the granddaughter of the Stryzover Rebbe and was born in Stryzov, Poland. She was brought to the U.S. when she was only six year old. In 1942 (5702) she married HaRav Levi Yitzchok Horowitz. The couple made their home in Boston, where her father-in-law HaRav Pinchas Dovid Horowitz, had established the Bostoner chassidim.
Her husband the Rebbe, the internationally renowned Chassidic leader and member of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudas Yisroel, has resided with his wife in the Boston area from the time of their marriage in 1942. For the past 20 years the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin also spent part of each year, usually from Adar to Elul, at their home in Yerushalayim.
At the end of World War II, the Rebbetzin and her friends, housed and found residences for hundreds of families of newly- arrived, displaced persons. She started the well-known chesed organization Daughters of Israel in Boston in 1945 and was instrumental in the founding of ROFEH International, the Bostoner Rebbe's distinguished medical liaison service and referral agency.
The Rebbetzin stood by her husband in all his many activities over the years in support of Torah and chesed. Very often, the Rebbe was mekarev the men while the Rebbetzin o"h was mekarev the women. Even in the Jewishly difficult and relatively isolated situation in Boston of the 40s and 50s, she established a true Jewish home whose warmth and Yiddishe taam had a tremendous impact on searching American youth.
The Rebbetzin authored a best selling book titled "The Bostoner Rebbetzin Remembers," a book that uses old time logic to address modern day problems and issues.
Her Shabbaton program attracted thousands of students in the Boston area. The Rebbetzin pioneered in the founding of the Jerusalem Har Nof community, where many were privileged to attend the Rebbe's elaborate Tishen, with the ladies sitting by the Rebbetzin's side as she gave over the Rebbe's Torah to them. Her personal counselling to those who needed a listening ear and some sage Torah based advice eventually became her most prominent activity. The Rebbetzin assumed the role of matriarch of one of the most distinguished rabbinic families in the United States.
The Rebbetzin is survived by her husband, Grand Rabbi Levi Y. Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe, of Boston and Har Nof Jerusalem; her sister Rebbetzin C.Y. Rosenbaum of New York.
Her children: Rabbi Pinchos Horowitz, the Chuster Rav, Brooklyn, New York; Rabbi Mayer Horowitz, Jerusalem; Rebbetzin Shayna Frankel, Flatbush , New York; Rabbi Naftali Horowitz, Brookline, Massachusetts; Rebbetzin Toby Geldzahler, Har Nof. The Rebbetzin is also survived by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. HaRav Meir Horowitz is the rabbi of the Bostoner community in Israel.
A descendant of Reb Naftali Ropshitzer.
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Raichel Horowitz's Timeline
| 1918 |
April 12, 1918
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Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1944 |
April 19, 1944
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| 1946 |
March 1946
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1952 |
May 1, 1952
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 2002 |
July 2, 2002
Age 84
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Brookline, MA, United States
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Har Zaysim, Jerusalem, Israel
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