Obituary: Rabbi Herschel Feigelstock, 98, Devoted Montreal Educator For 75 Years

Rabbi Herschel Feigelstock, an educator who narrowly escaped the Nazis in his native Austria, was imprisoned in a wartime internment camp in Canada, taught Judaic studies in Yiddish to Jewish public school children, and then served as a pillar of the Montreal Jewish community as a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary for three-quarters of a century, passed away Nov. 25. He was 98.

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Driving Rural Georgia

by Mussi Sharfstein – Lubavitch.com The last place Rabbi Chaim Markovits expected to hear an authentic, heimish Yiddish with a Brooklyn accent was in Macon, Georgia (pop. 150,000). Not that it’s implausible—Rural Georgia is home to roughly 5-10,000 Jews. Which […]