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Longtime Mother of Parisian Jewry Passes Away
Nov 14, 2011 2:15 PM
Rebbetzin Bassy Azimov, daughter of the famed Rabbi Bentzion Shemtov and one of the driving forces behind Paris’ Jewish rebirth in the second half of the 20th century, passed away Monday. She was 67. |
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Attorney of Lubavitch Movement Passes Away in Philadelphia
Aug 23, 2011 5:45 PM
Jerome J. Shestack, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and human-rights advocate whose work on behalf of the United States government, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, and other organizations took him around the globe, was an intellectual and moral force to be reckoned with. |
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International Jewish Philanthropist Passes Away at 99
May 20, 2011 12:30 PM
Cleveland-raised and a longtime resident of Hollywood, Fla., Jack N. Mandel supported Chabad-Lubavitch of South Broward, the Broward Chai Center, and other Jewish institutions in the area. |
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Longtime Lubavitch Youth Leader Passes Away
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, 84
May 17, 2011 11:25 AM
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, an immigrant from the Soviet Union who, as chairman of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, spearheaded many educational campaigns instituted by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away Tuesday at the age of 84. |
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Chasidic Scientist, Solar Energy Pioneer, Passes Away
Yaacov (Jack) Hanoka, 75
May 11, 2011 9:45 PM
Solar energy pioneer Yaacov (Jack) Hanoka, who held patents for 56 of his inventions and was known for his passion and optimism in finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels, passed away at the age of 75. |
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Montreal Kabbalist and Educator Passes Away at Age of 94
Jan 16, 2011 12:00 PM
Rabbi Menachem Zeev “Wolf” Greenglass, the Montreal Kabbalist, educator and community activist who touched thousands of students over the years, passed away last month at the age of 94. |
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No Stranger to Hardship, Young Emissary Offered Hope to Others
Nov 22, 2010 11:00 AM
Rabbi Mendel Deren, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary considered by many New York area businessmen as a personal adviser and confidant, passed away during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. |
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Chabad-Lubavitch Emissary, a Young Mother of Six, Passes Away
Oct 4, 2010 8:15 AM
A Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Manchester, England, lost a month-long battle for her life Sunday, leaving family and friends straining for answers just six weeks after celebrating the birth of her son. |
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London Educator Remembered for Dedication to Jewish Women and Youth
July 26, 2010 9:00 AM
Henny Sufrin, who co-founded the Chabad-Lubavitch center in the suburb of Ilford, Essex, passed away July 15 at the age of 76. |
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Northeastern Matriarch of Jewish Education Passes Away at 91
July 15, 2010 7:30 AM
Regarded as a matriarch of Jewish life and education in southern Connecticut, Rivkah Hecht passed away July 8 at the age of 91. |
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Capital Community Copes With Loss of Mother, Mentor and Friend
July 6, 2010 10:45 AM
Shockwaves of grief steamrolled through the greater Washington, D.C., Jewish community with the news of the passing of Zlata Geisinsky, a 49-year-old Chabad-Lubavitch emissary seen by many as a close, personal confidant. |
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Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Passes Away at 81
June 8, 2010 5:00 PM
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who at the age of 28, became the youngest member ever to serve as a judge in the Israeli rabbinical courts and went on to serve for a decade in the nation’s highest rabbinic office as the Sephardic Chief Rabbi, succumbed Monday afternoon to a prolonged illness. |
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Unassuming Pillar of Boston Jewish Community Passes Away
May 7, 2010 8:45 AM
Known for both his scholarly achievements and a profound humility, Rabbi Pinchus “Pinny” Krinsky was among the first to implement modern mass-production techniques to post-slaughter koshering of chickens. |
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Founder of Chicago Women’s Organization Passes Away
Apr 25, 2010 12:15 PM
Chava “Evelyn” Shusterman, a respected leader of the Chicago Jewish community who founded the city’s chapter of the Lubavitch Women’s Organization, passed away April 18 at the age of 89. |
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Oldest Chabad-Lubavitch Emissary Passes Away
Apr 12, 2010 8:30 AM
Rabbi Moshe Elye Gerlitzky, who fled from the advancing Nazi armies of war-torn Europe to find refuge in Canada and establish a Jewish educational network on the country’s Atlantic coast, passed away April 4 at the age of 94. |
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Rabbi Trained Under Communism Dedicated Himself to Community
Mar 17, 2010 12:30 PM
Rabbi Lipa Schapiro, a senior member of the central Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical committee who mastered the study of Jewish law at the height of Soviet religious persecutions, passed away March 14 at the age of 97. |
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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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Maryasha Garelik (1900/1-2007)
Jan 10, 2007
"Bubbe" Maryasha Garelik survived the pogroms of czarist Russia, Soviet anti-Semitism and Nazi terror. Four generations of her descendants are Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the United States, Australia, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe and Africa. |
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Sgt. Michael Levin (1984-2006)
American-Born Soldier Dedicated Life to the Holy Land and the Torah
Aug 1, 2006
Ever since he was a teenager growing up in suburban Philadelphia, Staff Sgt. Michael Levin dreamt of moving to Israel and joining the Israel Defense Forces. He died fulfilling that dream. |
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Senator Jacob ("Chic") Hecht (1929-2006)
May 15, 2006
The Rebbe said, “Since I am not in the Senate you will be my representative and speak in my place, and you will try to help the Jews in Russia.” |
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Daniel Wultz (1990-2006)
Wultz's Spirit Shines Through In Death
May 14, 2006
Wultz, 16, succumbed Sunday to injuries he received in the Passover suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last month. He is the 11th victim of the Palestinian suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shwarma stand. |
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Marcia Lieberman (1905-2005)
A Tribute by Rabbi Yisroel Deren
June 26, 2005
She was a woman ahead of her times, enthusiastically embracing the opportunities that this blessed country, America embodies. |
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Lawrence M. Resnick, M.D (1949-2004)
The Rebbe's Doctor
May 6, 2004
Dr. Lawrence M. Resnick, an innovative researcher in hypertension who contributed pioneering research on the metabolic syndrome—findings that potentially affected the treatment of more than 47 million Americans with the condition |
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A Tribute to Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin
The Anti-Semitism Vaccine
May 2, 2004
On Sunday, May 2, 2004, Rabbi Leib Raskin, Chabad Lubavitch emissary to Morocco for more than 44 years, returned his soul to his Maker. He was 71 years old. |
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Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin (1933-2004)
Rebbe's Emissary to Morocco
May 2, 2004
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin, a legendary Chabad figure who served more than 40 years as the Lubavitcher rebbe’s emissary to Morocco, died last week of cancer in Montreal. Rabbi Raskin was 71. |
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Jay Litvin (1944-2004)
Apr 16, 2004
Jay was so much more than a contributing writer at Chabad.org. He was a leader who blazed new pathways, taking us to places no one had dared or even imagined visiting before. |
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Rabbi Yakov Moshe Friedman (1924-2004)
Apr 1, 2004
What everyone remembers most about my father was the twinkle in his eye, the radiant smile on his face and the way he always made you feel special, particularly when he was doing you a favor. |
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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen (1954-1998)
Father of the Jewish Internet
Dec 2, 1998
Father of the Jewish Internet, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen, Director of Chabad Lubavitch in Cyberspace and considered by many the pioneer of Jewish education on the internet. |
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Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan (1947-1998)
Chabad Lubavitch emissary to Safed
May 12, 1998
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan, teacher and leader of entire communities was killed in a car accident in Russia |
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Rabbi Menachem Shmuel David Raichik (1918-1998)
Feb 4, 1998
Rabbi Menachem Shmuel Dovid Raichik, personal emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbes, passed away Tuesday night, February 4 (8 Shevat), after a brief illness. He was 79 years old. |
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A Tribute to Rabbi Hodakov
A Small Man with Great Advice
Apr 23, 1993
At the end of the hallway at the main entrance to Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, is a small office not even ten-by-ten. You would not have known from the room's simplicity that the man who occupied it was one of the prime architects of the post-war renaissance of Jewish life. |
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Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov (1902-1993)
A Man of Great Devotion
Apr 23, 1993
Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, Chief of Staff of the office of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson for more than 40 years, passed away Friday night, April 23, after a brief illness. He was 91 years old. |
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