No Stranger to Hardship, Young Chabad-Lubavitch Emissary Offered Hope to Others
Rabbi Mendel Deren, who passed away this month at the age of 36, chats with Vladimir Rosenblitt, a businessman with whom he kept a frequent correspondence.
Rabbi Mendel Deren, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary considered by many New York area businessmen as a personal adviser and confidant, passed away during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. With his family by his side in his New York University hospital room, Deren succumbed to complications from a lifelong condition. He was 36.
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