Levi Yitzchak HeLevi Horowitz was a rabbi and the second rebbe of the Boston Hasidic dynasty founded by his father, Rabbi Pinchos Dovid Horowitz.
Background
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.
Career
Horowitz"s parents were Rabbi Pinchos Dovid Horowitz and Sora Sosha Horowitz. In 1943, Horowitz was one of the 400-plus rabbis led by Rabbi Baruch Korff who traveled to Washington, District of Columbia just before Yom Kippur, to plead with President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt to rescue Jews from Hitler. In 1984, Horowitz decided to create a Hasidic community in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, establishing Givat Pincus and dividing his time between Israel and Boston.
The nascent Bostoner community in Har Nof was instrumental in developing that neighborhood"s Orthodox community.
In 1999, an additional community was established in Beitar for the next generation of Bostoner Chassidim. At the time of his death, he resided both in the United States. and in Israel spending half a year in each country.
Horowitz suffered a cardiac arrest on July 6, 2009, and hospitalized in the Sharei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem. He died at the Sharei Tzedek Medical Center, on Saturday, December 5, 2009 (Shabbat Vayishlach).
He was buried the same night on the Mount of Olives.
The Boston Globe carried a comprehensive obituary on December 24, 2009.
Membership
Horowitz served as a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of Israel.