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10 Facts About Yisroel Jacobson

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Yisroel Jacobson was a Chabad Hasidic rabbi and the representative of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, to the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Rabbi Jacobson was one of the first Lubavitcher activists to arrive in to the United States.

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Yisroel Jacobson was born in Russia and migrated to the United States in 1925.

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Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson was born in Zurowitz, White Russia on 20th of November in 1895.

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Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson volunteered to move to the United States at the request of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.

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Soon Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson became active in fundraising activities, sending the funds overseas to the sixth Rebbe, supporting Chabad activities in Eastern Europe and enabling the sixth Rebbe to leave Russia.

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Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson served as the rabbi in the Anshei Bobroisk synagogue in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

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Yisroel Jacobson founded Yeshivas Achei T'mimim in New York in 1932, for young men who had become close to Chabad.

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Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson served on the faculty of the central Lubavitch yeshiva at 770 Eastern Parkway.

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Yisroel Jacobson helped found the Yeshiva Hadar Hatorah for baalei teshuvah where he served as dean.

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