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Obituary

Rabbi Reuven Margolin, 60, AH

Rabbi Reuven Margolin, a prominent sofer and one of the pioneers of the revival of Jewish life in Dnipro, Ukraine, passed away on Wednesday, 26 Tishrei.

Rabbi Arye Leib Prager, 91, AH

Rabbi Arye Leib Prager, longtime Crown Heights mechanech who taught for many years at Oholei Torah, passed away on Wednesday, 26 Tishrei.

Rabbi Yisroel Eliezer Rubin, longtime shliach to Albany and head shliach of the Capital Region and Northeast New York State, passed away on the night of Shemini Atzeres, shortly after participating in hakafos at his shul.

Rabbi Levi Tenenbaum, 71, AH

Rabbi Levi Tenenbaum, a long-time mechanech and the Ba'al Tokeah in 770 for many years, passed away on Wednesday, 19 Tishrei.

R’ Berel Dubravsky, 96, AH

R’ Berel Dubravsky, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, who baked matzos for the Rebbe and served on the chevra kadisha, passed away on Chol Hamoed Sukkos.

Mrs. Rivkah Chitrik, 96, AH

Mrs. Rivkah Chitrik (née Karasik), one of the Rebbe's very first Shluchos, passed away on Monday, 17 Tishrei, 5787, Chol Hamoed Sukkos.

Yanky Levinson, AH

Yanky Levinson of Crown Heights passed away on Monday, 17 Tishrei, after a lengthy illness.

R’ Shloma Zuntz, 83, AH

R’ Shloma Zuntz, a longtime resident of Crown Heights who devoted decades to assisting Soviet Jewry and rebuilding Jewish life across the Former Soviet Union, passed away on Erev Sukkos, 14 Tishrei.

Yaakov Meir Eisenbach, 24, AH

Yaakov Meir Eisenbach, a young Lubavitcher bochur from Yerushalayim, passed away on Shabbos, 8 Tishrei.

Rabbi Avraham Lipskier, 86, AH

Rabbi Avraham Lipskier, who devoted more than six decades to teaching and guiding baalei teshuva, passed away on Thursday, 28 Elul.

Mrs. Chaya Laine, 80, AH

Mrs. Chaya Laine, who served for many years as a principal at Bais Rivkah High School, passed away on Tuesday night, 27 Elul.

Mrs. Hadassa Carlebach, 99, AH

Mrs. Haddasa Miriam Carlebach, the matriarch to a large Chabad family who was a second cousin of the Rebbe and had a close relationship with the Rebbetzin, passed away on Sunday, 24 Elul.

R’ Yehoshua Safrin, 91, AH

R' Yehoshua Safrin, son of the Komarna Rebbe and a chossid of the Rebbe, who learned in and supported the Crown Heights Kollel, passed away over Shabbos.

Alexander Ruvinov, 85, AH

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

Mrs. Chasya Mordokh, 89, AH

Mrs. Chasya Mordokh, a longtime resident of Miami Beach, Florida, and a beloved Morah, passed away on Thursday, 14 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.