Overview
- Rebbetzin Rochele Fogelman passed away at 98 on Tuesday, 7 Cheshvan 5786, according to community reports.
- She and her late husband, Rabbi Hershel Fogelman, were dispatched in 1947 by the Frierdiker Rebbe to Worcester, where they led for 78 years.
- The Fogelmans founded a Jewish day school in Worcester, and she organized and taught classes for local women.
- In 1953 she brought her students to a private audience with the Rebbe, translated and transcribed his remarks, and that transcript was later placed in the central Agudas Chassidei Chabad Library.
- She was predeceased by her husband and son and is survived by children in Worcester, Natick, Los Angeles, and Crown Heights, with funeral details to be announced.