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FIVE YEARS OF THE JEWISH WEEKLY Dear Yossi and the team at The Jewish Weekly, Kisharon wanted to wish you a Mazal Tov on the 5 year edition of the paper. We value your paper and the news you share with Kisharon and the wider community. Wishing you many more years of success.
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Dear Editor Yossi, My family and I LOVE your newspaper. I have been reading the Kids Weekly section since the very first edition and our Shabbat is not the same without a copy of the Jewish Weekly newspaper at our table on Friday night. I always like reading out the jokes and riddles to my fantastic family and it’s a race for me and my Dad to see who can guess the Word Wheel quickest! Thank you for enhancing our Shabbat. Happy 5th birthday to the paper. Yours sincerely From Jonah, age 10.
Bubby Hecht mourned by 500 descendants with their future life together. In 1947, they took up a key post Jewish New Yorkers and Chabad at Congregation Yeshiva Meir are mourning the death of RebSimcha Hakohen and led it for betzin Chava Hecht last month 43 years. (February 8th, 7 Adar I, 5782). Rabbi and Rebbetzin Hecht visited pioneering orthodox boys Affectionately known as ‘BubCamp Agudah in 1952 in New by Hecht’, the 95-year-old greatgreat grandmother was blessed York’s Catskills region. After writto have around 500 descendants. ing to the Rebbe, they opened Married to the late Rabbi YaakCamp Emunah for girls (today ov Yehuda (J.J.) Hecht, over eight known as Camp Emunah Bnos decades, Rebbetzin Hecht balYaakov Yehudah), the following anced raising 12 children, includsummer. As camp director, Rebing two adopted, with communal betzin Hecht accepted dozens of commitments. She mentored children on full and partial scholthousands of Jewish women and arships annually. girls for over 70 years and worked Involved in Jewish education for Jewish causes throughout her for women from an early age, she lifetime. first taught at Beth Rivkah girls’ Oldest of three children, Chava school in Brownsville and was was born in 1926 in New York to involved with the Released Time immigrants Emilelech and Esprogram after her marriage. ther Leah Lasker. She excelled An active member of N’shei at mathematics whilst also studChabad, Chabad women’s orying at BaisYaakov after-school Rebbetzin Chava Hecht a”h PHOTO: CHABAD.ORG ganisation, in 1975, Rebbetzin seminary, a precursor to the first Hecht created Taharat Hamishalso hosted a Jewish radio program on New pacha International to bring mikvah to the all-day girls’ school in 1943. In 1945, Chava married Rabbi Hecht, York’s WEVD and served as a pulpit rabbi. masses. director of the National Committee for the The day of their marriage, the couple She also directed Toys for Hospitalised Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE) had a rare private audience granted with Children. Rabbi and Rebbetzin Hecht enjoyed a that ran projects for the Rebbe, Rabbi Me- the Sixth Rebbi, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. close relationship with the Rebbe, who nachem M. Schneerson. Rebbetzin Hecht credited this audience was sandek at the brit milah of their first Rabbi Hecht, who passed away in 1990, BY DAVID SAFFER
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born son. When another son, Sholem Ber, married in Australia in 1968, the Rebbe instructed both to address Australian Jewish communities. Soon after presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. The Hechts ensured his life was remembered during talks. Rebbetzin Hecht was part of a Chabad delegation that met President Barack Obama to mark Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., in honour of the Rebbe’s life’s work in 2015. The first woman to join the annual White House delegation of senior Chabad officials, Rebbetzin Hecht continued to fulfil community roles. Rebbetzin Hecht suffered tragedy when her son, Gershon Sabol, died in 2020. Her brother, Rabbi Tzvi Moshe Lasker of Bnei Brak, Israel, passed away January 2022. She is survived by her children Rabbi Sholem Ber Hecht (Queens, NY), Bassie Raskin (Brooklyn, NY), Rabbi Yossie Hecht (Johannesburg, South Africa), Fraide Sabol (Greenfield Park, NY), Rabbi Shea Hecht (Brooklyn, NY), Dovid Sabol (Greenfield Park, NY), Rivkie Abramowitz (Brooklyn, NY), Chana Rochel Duchman (Los Angeles), LeviHecht (Brooklyn, Y.)., Rabbi Shimon Hecht (Brooklyn, Y.), Binie Tenenbaum (Irvine, Calif.), grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and sister, Tziporah Goldberg of Brooklyn.
