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By Joshua Runyan for Chabad.org
A Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Manchester, England, lost a month-long battle for her life Sunday, leaving family and friends straining for answers just six weeks after celebrating the birth of her son. A mother of six children, Esther Aidel Cohen was 33 years old when she passed away.

Shlucha, Young Mother of Six, Remembered

By Joshua Runyan for Chabad.org

A Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Manchester, England, lost a month-long battle for her life Sunday, leaving family and friends straining for answers just six weeks after celebrating the birth of her son. A mother of six children, Esther Aidel Cohen was 33 years old when she passed away.

Born and raised in Albany, N.Y., Cohen’s middle name was given to her in memory of her great aunt, who perished as a young girl in Slonim, Belarus, during the Holocaust. Her parents, Rabbi Israel and Rochel Rubin, directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Capital District in Albany, said that the name reflected their daughter’s character.

“Like the Yiddish word aidel, Esty was refined and sensitive, genuine and very modest,” said Israel Rubin. “Bright and learned, she loved deeply appreciated learning both in school and in her married years.”

In Manchester, Cohen was known for her dedicated support to her husband, Beis Menachem Chabad director Rabbi Mendel Cohen, and their shared communal work, and for her constant devotion and care in raising their children in the proper ways of Torah and Chasidic life. Her passing struck both her local Jewish community and the wider family of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries particularly hard.

People around the world, many who didn’t know Cohen or her family, rallied to her support, reciting Psalms and donating money to help her husband with childrearing costs.

Continued at Chabad.org – “This is a terrible tragedy,”

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6 Comments

  • A HUMAN BEING

    A terrible tragedy for one & all It’s time for everyone together to stop the bickering & join as one ask & DEMAND OF the Aibishter AD MOSAI AD MOSAI HOW MUCH MORE MUST WE SUFFER?

  • BDE

    Its hearsay right now but I heard it was an infection due to a stomach ulcer that went undetected because she was pregnant and postpartum and the doctors didnt pick it up in time.

  • Why?

    The family should press for a full investergation to see if neglect was resposible for a 33 year olds death.

    It won’t bring her back but might prevent another future tradgedy if aq mistake was made.

  • to#3

    to #3 that y the leviye has not taken place yet. hospital wont relise the mess so not always asking investgation is good