The wife of a Lubavitch rabbi based in St. Petersburg, Russia, gave birth to quintuplets. Esther Segal, a teacher at St. Petersburg’s Ohr Avner-Chabad day school, had three boys and two girls at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Her husband, David, is the director of a yeshiva and women’s institute of higher education in St. Petersburg.
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