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Overview
- Mrs. Rivka Rubashkin, who built a reputation for open-door hospitality in Brooklyn, died this week at age 99 according to community reports.
- The levaya (funeral) was held on Monday and included processions past her Boro Park home, 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, and near the Ohel, drawing large attendance.
- She and her late husband, Reb Avraham Aharon Rubashkin, who died in 2020, helped found the family’s kosher businesses in Boro Park while she ran Crown’s Deli from the early 1960s as an informal hub of chessed.
- Survivors include nine children across the United States and Israel plus numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, and several outlets noted many of the couple’s acts of help were private and unpublicized.
- Reports trace her life from birth in Nevel and wartime refuge in Samarkand to postwar stays in Europe and immigration to New York in 1953, a journey that community coverage says informed the family’s long commitment to aiding immigrants and students.