Overview

• Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kalmanson, 70, longtime Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo in New Haven, died suddenly on the first night of Rosh Hashana after visiting the Rebbe’s Ohel on erev Yom Tov.
• The New Haven levaya for Rabbi Kalmanson began Motzoei Rosh Hashana, continued Thursday past 770 Eastern Parkway at 2:30 p.m., and concluded with burial at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens at 3:30 p.m.
• Rabbi Yechiel Michel Vishedsky, 84, a revered mashpia from Kfar Chabad and patriarch of a large Chabad family, also passed away on the first night of the holiday.
• The levaya for Rabbi Vishedsky was held Wednesday night in Kfar Chabad, with interment requested at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens near the Rebbe’s Ohel.
• Vishedsky’s life traced a classic arc of Soviet-era Chassidic perseverance, including failed escape attempts, his father’s exile to Kazakhstan, and eventual immigration to Israel in 1965, while Kalmanson built the New Haven yeshiva with the Rebbe’s blessing and authored the Reshimos Shiurim series.