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Rabbi Eliezer Wenger, Noted Educator, Passes Away
Mar 15, 2010 10:30 AM
Rabbi Eliezer Wenger, a noted author, educator and expert on Jewish law, passed away last week at the age of 62. Revered by students around the world and his pupils at Montreal’s Beth Rivkah Academy and Lubavitch School, he formulated a curriculum that has guided thousands in their daily lives. |
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Loss of Matriarch Stuns L.A. Jewish Community
Mar 4, 2010 1:40 PM
As her family members concluded the traditional weeklong mourning period, Jewish community members across Southern California and throughout the world credited Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet – who passed away Feb. 23 at the age of 65 – with inspiring thousands of people. |
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Rabbi Chaskel Besser, Revitalizing Force of Polish Jewry, Passes Away
Feb 11, 2010 12:15 PM
Known for a disarming smile and a dignified love of all people, Rabbi Chaskel Besser, who worked to spur a revival of Jewish life in his native Poland, passed away at the age of 87. |
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Desert Population Grieves After Passing of Beloved Chief Rabbi
Sep 25, 2009 8:00 AM
A father figure to thousands of Jews in the southern Israeli city of Arad, Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away Wednesday at the age of 65. |
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Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner (1925-2008)
Senior Australian Rabbi Passes Away
July 7, 2008
Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, a passionate educator who established a day school system with 1,500 students, passed away at the age of 83. |
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Rabbi Issohor Dov Gurewitch (1915-2008)
Educator Remembered as Fatherly Figure of Students
May 7, 2008
Rabbi Issohor Dov Gurewitch, who escaped Russia and took up the leadership of a girls' school in Paris, died at the age of 93. |
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Rebbetzen Chana Schapiro (1914-2008)
Soviet-Era Survivor Educated Her Family in Freedom
Mar 18, 2008
Chana Schapiro, a lifelong Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid known for her devotion to her children's education, passed away yesterday in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was 94. |
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Rabbi Zev Segal (1917-2008)
Rabbi Zev Segal Traveled the World for the Jewish Community
Mar 7, 2008
Rabbi Zev Segal, a longtime Jewish activist and respected rabbinic figure, was found dead on Thursday. He was 91. |
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Self-Made Millionaire Who Supported Education Dead at 81
Feb 11, 2008
Mel Landow, whose largesse helped a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva find a permanent home, died last week at the age of 81. |
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Taibel Lipskier (1913-2008)
Soviet Survivor Who Cared for the Neglected
Jan 31, 2008
Known for her care of the sick and needy, Taibel Lipskier was a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid who saw the worst of Soviet oppression. |
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Longtime Kfar Chabad Educator Passes Away at 68
Dec 27, 2007
Rabbi Amos Karniel was remembered as a humble man who dedicated his life to the children of the community. |
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Texas Community Hails Late Preschool Teacher as Mentor
Dec 25, 2007
The Jewish community in S. Antonio, Texas, remembered a teacher known affectionately as Morah Robin – who died last week at the age of 62 – as a dedicated educator and loving mentor. |
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Veteran Tunisian Rabbi Passes Away After Decades Serving North African Jewry
Dec 4, 2007 10:00 PM
Rabbi Nisson Pinson, a Russian transplant to North Africa who headed up Chabad-Lubavitch activities in Tunis, died Monday. |
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Force Behind Growth of Moroccan Jewry Passed Away at 91
Nov 12, 2007
Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, who established a system of Jewish schools in Morocco at the behest of the Lubavitcher Rebbe died Saturday night. |
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Matriarch of Philanthropic Rohr Family, 78
Oct 25, 2007
Mrs. Charlotte Rohr, a devoted mother and grandmother who nurtured a family with philanthropic interests spanning the globe, died in her hometown of Bal Harbour, Fla., on Monday after a long illness. |
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Pioneering Chabad Emissary, Mother and Grandmother Passes Away in Nashville
Oct 24, 2007
Mrs. Risya Posner, 80, established with her husband the first Chabad-Lubavitch center in Nashville. An inspiration to all who knew her and read of her life, she was a constant innovator and a driving force behind Chabad educational activities across the globe. |
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Leah Raichik (1929-2007)
"Bubbe" of California
Aug 8, 2007
Leah Raichik was sent to Los Angeles by the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1949. She passed away last week at the age of 78. |
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Colorful Chassidic Farmer Dies at 78
July 9, 2007
It's not everyday that a funeral for an elderly Chassid will stop at a barn on its way to the cemetery. |
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Abraham Klausner, 92, Hailed as Protector of Living Holocaust Victims
July 4, 2007
The Santa Fe, N.M. Jewish community mourned the demise of one of their own following the death late last month of retired U.S. Army Chaplain Abraham Klausner. |
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Ultimate Sacrifice
July 2, 2007
United States Army Specialist Daniel J. Agami, 25, affectionately known as "G.I. Jew," was killed in Baghdad on June 21. |
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