Levi Yitzchak Horowitz

Levi Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz (3 July 1921, Boston, 5 December 2009, Jerusalem ) was a rabbi and the second rebbe of the Boston Hasidic Dynasty founded by his father, Pinchos Dovid Horowitz. He was the first American-born Hasidic rebbe and the founder of ROFEH International, a community-based medical referral and hospitality liaison support agency.

Family Horowitz's parents were Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, founder of the Boston Hasidic dynasty, and Sora Sosha Horowitz. His father died in November 1941. In November 1942 a descendant of Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz.

Rabbinic career In 1943, Horowitz was one of over 400 rabbis led by Rabbi Eliezer Silver and Rabbi Baruch Korff who traveled to Washington, D.C., just before Yom Kippur, to ask President Franklin D. Roosevelt to rescue Jews from Hitler.

Upon becoming leader of the Bostoners 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 He died on December 5, 2009, and was buried that night on the Mount of Olives.

Per his will, he was succeeded by all his sons: his eldest son, the Chuster rabbi, Pinchos Duvid Horowitz(II) (died 2021) as Bostoner rebbe of Borough Park, Brooklyn