Levi Yitzchak Horowitz
| Levi Yitzchak Horowitz | |
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| Second Bostoner Rebbe | |
The Rebbe at the Western Wall, Jerusalem
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| Term | 1944–2009 |
| Full name | Levi Yitzchok Horowitz |
| Born |
July 3, 1921 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Buried | Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, 5 December 2009 |
| Predecessor | Pinchos Dovid Horowitz |
| Successor | Pinchos Dovid Horowitz (II), Mayer Alter Horowitz Naftali Yehuda Horowitz |
| Father | Pinchos Dovid Horowitz |
| Mother | Sora Sosha |
| Wife 1 | Raichel Ungar |
| Children 1 | Pinchos Dovid Horowitz Mayer Alter Horowitz Naftali Yehuda Horowitz Shayna Gittel Toba Leah |
| Wife 2 | Yehudis |
Levi Yitzchak HeLevi Horowitz (born 3 July 1921, Boston, Massachusetts, died 5 December 2009, Jerusalem) 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.
Horowitz's parents were Rabbi Pinchos Dovid Horowitz and Sora Sosha Horowitz. His father, founder of the Boston Hasidic dynasty, died in November 1941. On 17 November 1942 he married Raichel Unger Leifer of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Rabbi Naftali Unger, av beis din of Neumarkt and a descendant of Rabbi Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz.
In 1943, Horowitz was one of the 400-plus rabbis led by Rabbi Baruch Korff who traveled to Washington, D.C. just before Yom Kippur, to plead with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to rescue Jews from Hitler.
Upon ascending to the leadership of the Bostoner Hasidim in 1944, after his marriage and ordination at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, he announced that his primary thrust as rebbe would be aimed at the area's large number of college students, many of whom were away from home and in a perfect position to partake of all that he felt the New England Chassidic Center could offer them. Many tried to dissuade him, saying that Hasidism and college did not mix, but he persevered and was personally responsible for returning many students at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to their Jewish roots.
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