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From Days Gone By: Shluchim in the Early ’80s

CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this photo of a group of Shluchim from around the globe at a gathering in the early 1980s. How many of them can you identify?

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16 Comments

  • Elki

    No order – as I recognized a face, I added the name:

    I think:
    Rabbis Lew, Feldman, Shemtov, M. Friedman, Baumgarten, Korf…

    Hope I got some right

  • chayim

    from right to left
    rabbis avraham baroch pevsner, zusha winer ,(begon?),shabsi halperin,?,?,mendel futerfas, nachman sudak, leibel raskin, gershun mendel garelick, moshe hecht, shmuel david reichick, ?, yisrael leibov, yitschok david groner, shmoel azimov,
    standing
    (felig?), yisroel deren, yodol krinsky, avremel shemtuv,yossi gopin,(weinberg?),

  • Names

    From Right to Left:
    1) R. Lou – U.K. ?
    2) R. Winer – (then) Venezuela
    3) R. Sandhouse – Argentina
    4) R. ?
    5) R. ?
    6) R. K. Bacher – S. Africa
    7) R. Mendel Futerfas
    8) R. N. Sudak – U.K. ?
    9) R. L. Raskin – Maroco
    10) R. G.M. Garelik – Milano
    11) R. M. Hecht – N.H. Ct.
    12) R. S.D. Ritchick
    13) R. M. Herson – N.J. ?
    14) R. Y. Laybov – Tzach Israel
    15) R. Y.D. Groner – Australia
    16) R. M. Azimov – Paris
    Stending: (then the young Shluchim)
    17) R. Y. Felig
    18) R. Y. Deren
    19) R. Y. Krinsky
    20) R. A.Y. Shem Tov
    21) R. Y. Gopin – Hartford Ct.
    22) R. Chaim Prus – Boston

  • Those were the days.

    Muleh Azimov, YD Groner, Y lebov, S Chefer, R’SD Raichik, Reb Mendel, A Shemtov, etc etc etc .

  • Names...

    Easy peasie!
    Well one is anyhow! Second from left is Rabbi Yitzchak Groner a”h from Melbourne!

  • Zushe Winner???

    Where was he a Shliach back then?

    It must have been prior to his appointment as rabbi and spiritual leader of the Seabreeze Jewish Center in West Brighton.

  • sruli

    unbelievable how time flies…I remember when these were the “young Shluchim.”