Obituary: Miriam Paltiel-Gordon, 87, Chronicled Soviet Chassidic Childhood as ‘Miriam Nevel’
Miriam Paltiel-Gordon, the mother and grandmother of a large Chabad family around the world who served for decades as a Chabad emissary in Worcester, Mass., and chronicled her childhood in the Chabad underground in the Soviet Union and then the DP camps in Europe, passed away on Tuesday, the second day of Chanukah, at the age of 87.