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Mrs. Esther Denburg, 92, AH

Mrs. Esther Denburg, longtime member of the Lubavitch community in Montreal and matriarch of a large Lubavitch family, passed away on Tuesday, 16 Cheshvan.

R’ Yehuda ‘Flumie’ Harris, 65, AH

R' Yehuda “Flumie” Harris, a beloved member of the Anash community in New Haven, CT, passed away Wednesday morning, 10 Cheshvan, after battling an illness over the past few months.

Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Malov, 51, AH

Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Malov, the son-in-law of Harav Yehuda Yaroslavsky and a member of Anash in Nachlas Har Chabad, passed away suddenly on Monday, 8 Cheshvan.

Mrs. Rivka Kravitsky, 90, AH

Mrs. Rivka Kravitsky, the matriarch of a Chabad family, passed away on Monday, 8 Cheshvan.

Mrs. Rivka Laine, 72, AH

Mrs. Rivka Naomi Laine, a longtime resident of Crown Heights and matriarch of a Lubavitch family, passed away on Sunday, 7 Cheshvan.

Mrs. Lora Edelson (Finkelman), 73, AH

Mrs. Lora Finkelman-Edelson, a resident of Crown Heights, passed away on Friday, 5 Cheshvan.

Mendy Vilenkin, 17, AH

Hatomim Menachem Mendel (Mendy) Vilenkin, a Lubavitcher bochur from Toronto, Canada, passed away on 1 Cheshvan following a serious illness.

Shterna Sarah Tevel, 69, AH

Shterna Sarah Tevel, a longtime Crown Heights resident known for her devotion to the Rebbe and caring for others, passed away on Erev Shabbos, 28 Tishrei.

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.