Overview
- Community outlets report his passing at 91, with one listing 24 Heshvan/Nov. 15 and another Motzei Shabbos, 25 Heshvan.
- Born in Kharkov in 1934 and raised in Tel Aviv, he came to 770 in 1957 to learn near the Rebbe.
- He became an early transcriber and typist of the Rebbe’s sichos, with rare recordings that preserve talks including Purim 5718.
- In 1960 he moved to New Haven to serve as a shochet, later leading mivtzoim, Yale campus outreach, and one of the first mitzvah-tank efforts outside New York.
- He is survived by his wife Devorah/Debbie and daughter Mrs. Sara(h) Dubov of Wimbledon, with levaya and shiva details yet to be announced.