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| Maryasha Garelik
1900/1-2007
By Henya Laine
"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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| Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov
April 14, 1994
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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| Rabbi Menachem Shmuel David Raichik
February 4, 1998
By Zalman Shmotkin
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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| Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan
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 Yosef Yitzchak Kazen ("YYK")
December 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 Yakov Moshe Friedman
April 1, 2004
By Avraham Friedman
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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| Jay Litvin
April 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 Leibel Raskin
1933-2004
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin was born to parents who defied Stalin's rule by spreading Judaism despite warnings of being jailed and executed. In 1959, Raskins and his wife became Lubavitch emissaries in Morocco, and their work was praised by King Hassan II and King Mohammed VI | |
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| Marcia Lieberman
June 26, 2005
By Yisroel Deren
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| Wultz's Spirit Shines through in Death
By Joshua Runyan
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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| Senator Jacob ("Chic") Hecht
(1929-2006)
By Chanie Goldman
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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| A Remarkable Spirit is Laid to Rest
American-Born Soldier Dedicated Life to the Holy Land and it’s Torah
By Sima Borkovski and Joshua Runyan
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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| Lawrence M. Resnick, M.D., Dies at 55
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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| Leah Raichik, "Bubbe" of California
By Yehuda L. Ceitlin
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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