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Alexander Ruvinov, 85, AH

Alexander Ruvinov, a longtime resident of Kensington, New York, passed away on Monday, 18 Elul.

Mrs. Henna Markel, 45, AH

Mrs. Henna Markel (nee Margolis), a Crown Heights resident and mother of three, passed away on Tuesday, 12 Elul, following a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Miriam Slavin, 96, AH

Mrs. Miriam Slavin, a Holocaust survivor, longtime Crown Heights resident and matriarch of a large Chabad family, passed away.

Mrs. Leiba Simon, 38, AH

Mrs. Chana Leiba Chaya Simon (nee Goldhair), a young mother from Ormond Beach, Florida, passed away on Monday, 11 Elul, following a lengthy illness.

Kasriel Nachman Keinan, 24, AH

After more than a week of intensive searches, the body of missing Lubavitcher bochur Kasriel Nachman Keinan was found Thursday afternoon in difficult terrain near the Swiss Forest outside Tiveria.

R’ Moshe Schlass, 87, AH

R’ Moshe Schlass, a longtime member of Anash in Yerushalayim’s Old City, known for his open home and decades of hachnosas orchim, passed away on Wednesday, 29 Av.

Mrs. Miriam Meijers, 82, AH

Mrs. Miriam Meijers, who served on Shlichus in Amsterdam for decades alongside her husband, Rabbi Eliezer Daniel Meijers, the first Shliach sent by the Rebbe to settle in the Netherlands, passed away on Friday, Chof Daled Av.

R’ Daniel Berghoff, 71, AH

R' Daniel Berghoff, a longtime member of the Anash community in S. Monica and Los Angeles, and more recently S. Diego, California, passed away on Thursday, 16 Menachem Av.

Mrs. Gittel Lurie, 96, AH

Mrs. Gittel Odel Lurie, a longtime member of the Montreal Lubavitch community and matriarch of a large Chassidishe family, passed away on Monday morning, 6 Av.

Rabbi Eli Rothman, 75, AH

Rabbi Eli Rothman, Shliach and longtime educator in Pittsburgh, PA, and Morristown, NJ, passed away on Friday afternoon after battling an illness.

Motti Rubinson, AH

Mordechai (Motti) Rubinson, a young man known for his kindness and generosity, passed away on Monday, Chof Ches Tamuz after battling an extended illness.

Harav Tuvia Blau, 90, AH

Harav Tuvia Blau, a prominent Chabad author, educator, askan, and longtime rov in Yerushalayim, who devoted his life to spreading and presenting the Rebbe’s Torah to the Hebrew-speaking public, passed away just weeks after the passing of his wife.

Ziv Moshe Shulman, 17, AH

Ziv Moshe Shulman, a young Lubavitcher bochur from Rechovot, passed away on Tuesday, 22 Tammuz, after collapsing suddenly on Sunday night at the Chabad yeshiva in Rechovot.

Rabbi Sholom Ber Eber, 78, AH

Rabbi Sholom Ber Eber, a longtime Crown Heights resident who devoted decades to preserving and disseminating photos, videos, and recordings of the Rebbe, passed away on Monday, 14 Tammuz.

R’ Arkeh Tzivin, 69, AH

R’ Arkeh Tzivin, who ran House of Glatt on Kingston Avenue for close to 40 years and was known for helping families in need, passed away on Erev Shabbos, 11 Tammuz, after an illness.

Mr. Yaakov Meir (Jacky) Zippel, AH

Mr. Yaakov Meir (Jacky) Zippel, a longtime gabbai and driving force at Milan’s Ohel Yaakov shul, and devoted supporter of the shluchim in Italy, passed away. He is the older brother of Utah Head Shliach Rabbi Benny Zippel.

Yosef Tzvi Sandman, 83, AH

Dr. Yosef Tzvi Sandman, longtime administrator of the Lubavitch Yeshiva in New Haven, Professor Emeritus at University of New Haven, and longtime mentor and founder of the Anash community in New Haven, CT, passed away on Wednesday, 9 Tammuz, 5786. He was 83.

Rabbi Berel Zaltzman, 92, AH

Rabbi Chaim Dovber (Berel) Zaltzman, a veteran chossid, renowned chazzan, and longtime shliach of the Rebbe, who dedicated his life to strengthening Yiddishkeit among Russian-speaking Jews, passed away on Tuesday, 8 Tammuz.

Harav Yitzchok Meir Hertz, 88, AH

Harav Yitzchok Meir Hertz, shliach of the Rebbe, rov, and rosh yeshiva in London for over 60 years, passed away on Friday morning, 4 Tammuz.

Rabbi Shmuly Altein, 43, AH

Rabbi Shmuly Altein, who served as a shliach to Winnipeg, Canada, and in recent years as a shul rabbi in Wesley Hills, NY, passed away on Thursday, Gimmel Tammuz, after a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Rivka Rubashkin, 99, AH

Mrs. Rivka Rubashkin, a longtime Boro Park resident and matriarch of the Rubashkin family, who together with her husband R’ Avraham Aaron Rubashkin was known for hachnosas orchim and helping Yidden in need, passed away on Sunday, 30 Sivan, the first day of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.