The Bucharester Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel Deutsch, died yesterday at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Hospital after a long illness. The Rebbe, who was 78 years old, was born in Safad and emigrated to Rumania when Safad suffered hunger and privation after World War I.
He was one of the last Hasidic rebbes to leave Rumania for the United States after the Communist takeover. He came here in 1962. He was the scion of many Hasidic luminaries and was revered by thousands of Hasidic Jews.
Funeral services are being held both in Brooklyn and Jerusalem. The funeral services here were at the Rebbe’s Congregation Ohel Moshe in Brooklyn. The services in Israel will be held tomorrow at the Har Menuchos, a cemetery in Jerusalem.
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