Rabbi Saul Kassin

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Rabbi of the Syrian community of Brooklyn · 1920–2018

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Son of Rabbi Jacob Kassin and for decades his right hand. He taught at the community's Magen David Yeshivah for over thirty years and, after his father's death in 1994, led the Syrian Jewish community of Brooklyn. He was buried on Har HaMenuhot in Jerusalem.

As a young man with his father, Rabbi Yaakov Kassin, his mother Mazal Tov and his sister Charlotte
As a young man with his father, Rabbi Yaakov Kassin, his mother Mazal Tov and his sister Charlotte. public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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