My last name, Assayag, is of Moroccan origins. The word "Sayag" means Jeweler in Arabic, and the last name Assayag is common among Jews from Muslim countries since Islam prohibited its followers from handling precious metals
My great-great grandfather was Rav Yaakov Kantrowitz. He was born in 1873 in Uzda, and studied at the Volozhn yeshiva under Rabbi Raphael Shapira. He married Sheindel, the daughter of Rabbi Yitzchak Yechiel Davidovich. He was one of ten students at the Brodsky Kollel, and studied there for six years, only coming home for Pesach and Sukkot. He was the rabbi in Vartishtsina for 3 years, and then the rabbi in Uzda in 1907, then in the city of Shotsk, and from there he went to Timkawitz. In 1928 he escaped communist Russia with his family, and moved to Trenton, New Jersey. He became the chief rabbi there, and made a living providing kosher food to factories. He was the Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Torah Vedaat for about a year, until he had a very bad fall. When he recovered, he became the bochein, the person who examines students at the yeshiva. Rav Yaakov Kantrowitz died at age 72 in 1945. Rav Yaakov Kantrowitz's wifes name was Shaindl Kantrowitz (Davidowitz). Her sister was Faya Gittel Feinstein, the mother of Rav Moshe Feinstein. One of her other sisters names was Guta Halevi (Davidowitz) Feinsein, who was the grandmother of Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik.
This picture shows Rav Yaakov Kantrowitz, his son Avremel Kantrowitz, his daughter Rivka Lev (Kantrowitz), and his wife, Shaindl Kantrowitz (Davidowitz).