(JTA) — Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest known Jewish person, died at age 114. Steinberg, according to Chabad.org, died Sunday at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach, New York. She was two months away from her 115th birthday. Steinberg was born in 1900, one of eight siblings. As a child, she survived the 1903 […]
Throughout the month of Tishrei, yeshiva students Levi Abelsky, Mendy Maidanchick, and Yosef Levi put on tefillin with Jews throughout the city. Members of the Jewish community received pieces of the traditional lekach honey cake from head shliach Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Abelsky on Yom Kippur eve in accordance with the traditional custom also observed by his late father Rabbi Zalman Abelsky.
I would like to send my condolences to the Jewish communities in the country of Moldova following the passing of Chief Rabbi Zalman Tuvia Abelsky, of blessed memory. He was the survivor of his generation, a senior Chabad shliach who was sent to do his work by the Rebbe HaRayatz. He worked with singular dedication during some of the hardest times behind the Iron Curtain and he had the merit of restoring basic Jewish life to this country.
The first meeting between president of Moldova, Mr Nicolae Timofti, and new Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Abelsky took place, at the ceremony of the Moldovan Independence Day. Mr. Timofti found interest in life of the Jews in Moldova, and wished Rabbi Abelsky success in his new position of taking over his late father, Rabbi Zalman abelsky obm, as Chief Rabbi of Moldova.
Kiryat Gat – Israel. Marking the shloshim, of the first shliach and founder, of the Chabad movement in Kiryat Gat (1960-1990). Rabbi Zalmen Abelsky OBM – Chief Rabbi Moshe Havlin is addressing the crowd.
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