Mrs. Chana Popack, 97, OBM
We are deeply saddened to report on the passing of Mrs. Chana Popack, a longtime leader of the Crown Heights N’shei Chabad organization. She passed away on Friday, 11 Elul, 5784 • Full Story
We are deeply saddened to report on the passing of Mrs. Chana Popack, a longtime leader of the Crown Heights N’shei Chabad organization. She passed away on Friday, 11 Elul, 5784.
She was 97.
Chana, nee Teleshevsky, was born in Moscow to Rabbi Mordechai Dov and Chaya Sara Teleshevsky, chassidim of the Frierdiker Rebbe.
Her family escaped the Soviet Union and arrived in the United States in 1946.
When she arrived in the U.S.A., the Rebbe sent her on shlichus to teach in Buffalo, NY where she met and married her husband Rabbi Aaron Popack. The couple remained on shlichus in Buffalo for two years and then transferred to Brooklyn to run Beis Rivkah. They were sent on multiple Shlichus missions over the next years until the Rebbe sent them to Philadelphia in 1953 where they served for many years.
After her husband’s passing in 1977, Mrs. Popack moved back to Crown Heights where she was actively involved in the flourishing N’shei Chabad organization.
She is survived by her four children, Rabbi Mendel Popack and his wife Avigail, head shluchim to Capetown, South Africa; Mrs. Mashi and her husband Rabbi Mendel Lipskar, head shluchim to Southern Africa; Mrs. Dina and her husband Rabbi Sholom Ber Groner, shluchim in Johannesburg; Mrs. Rivkie and her husband Rabbi Yossi Yarmush, shluchim in Toronto; as well as dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The Levaya will pass 770 and Kevurah will take place at the Montefiore cemetery.
Baruch Dayan Haemes
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