BDE: Mrs. Rochel Altein, 95, OBM

With great sadness we report the passing of Mrs. Rochel Altein OBM, wife of the legendary Shliach Rabbi Mordechai Altein OBM, and matriarch of a large Lubavitch family. She passed away on Monday, the 19th of Nissan, 5780.

She was 95 years old.

Mrs. Altein was a well loved and famed Kallah teacher, as well as the Editor of “Di Yiddishe Heim” magazine.

She was predeceased by her husband Mordechai Dov Altein OBM, in December of 2019.

She is survived by her children, Rabbi Avrohom Altein (Winnipeg, Canada), Rabbi Leibel Altein (Crown Heights), Mrs. Malka Cohen (Manchester, England), Mrs. Sara Pinson (Nice, France), Mrs. Chanie Gurarie (Montreal, Canada), and Mrs. Sima Zalmanov (Tzfas, Isreal), as well as grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes