Rabbi Lipman Levine, a Talmudic scholar who was spiritual leader of Agudath Achim Anshe New Lots in the East New York section of Brooklyn for 42 years, died yesterday at the Maimonides Medical Center after a long illness. He was 86.
Born in Moledechno, Russia, Rabbi Levine studied at the famed Yeshiva in Volozhin. He came to the United States in 1923. He had been a vice-president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and a member of Mizrachi, the religious Zionist organization.
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