Origins
Grand Rabbi Pinchas Duvid Horowitz, the first Bostoner Rebbe, a scion of the Rebbe Reb Shmelke of Nikolsburg and the Lelov dynasty, first arrived in Boston in 1915 from the Land of Israel via Europe. Shortly after his arrival, Rabbi Pinchas David was accepted as Rebbe by the Jewish community of Boston. In 1939, the Bostoner Rebbe moved to Brooklyn, and opened the Bostoner Beis Medrash of Williamsburg. After his death in 1941, his son Rav Moshe succeeded him. In 1943, Rav Levi Yitzchok became another Bostoner Rebbe and built the New England Chassidic Center.
Reb Moshe later founded the Bostoner Bais Medrash of Crown Heights and the Bostoner Bais Medrash of Borough Park. In 1985, upon the passing of Reb Moshe, his sons Reb Avrohom Horowitz and Reb Pinchas Dovid succeeded their father. In 2006 the Bostoner Rebbe of Borough Park moved to Beit Shemesh in Israel to lead his sizeable community in that growing city. Reb Avrohom's younger brother Reb Pinchas Dovid, moved to the Flatbush section of Brooklyn in 1989 and founded Yeshiva Darchei Noam and brought Bostoner Chassidus to his new Bais Medrash there.
There are Bostoner communities in the Borough Park and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn, Lawrence, New York, Monsey, New York, Highland Park/Edison, New Jersey and Beitar Illit in Israel.
On Saturday December 5, 2009 the Bostoner Rebbe zt"l died in Jerusalem, Israel.
The three sons of the late Bostoner Rebbe, Rav Levi Yitzchok Horowitz zt”l, succeeding their venerated father in leading the Bostoner chassidus. Rav Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, the Chuster Rov of Boro Park, serves as Bostoner Rebbe in New York; Rav Mayer Alter Horowitz serves as Bostoner Rebbe in Har Nof, Yerushalayim; and Rav Naftali Horowitz is widely known as The Bostoner Rebbe. The great majority of the Chassidim of the late Bostoner Rebbe Levi Yitzchok Horowitz have become followers of Grand Rabbi Naftali Horowitz.
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