Chana Rubin Ausubel

Chana Rubin Ausubel is a former national field director for Emunah Women of America, director and teacher at Machon Ora’s English-speaking women's division, and founder and director of Machon Maayan Bina, a school for English-speaking converts. She resides in Israel.

Op-Eds

Irving Bunim: Torah Activist, Ardent Zionist

By Chana Rubin Ausubel

My father, businessman and philanthropist Irving Bunim, z”l, was one of the foremost leaders of American Orthodoxy during its formative years. When he passed away in December 1980, Reb Moshe Feinstein declared, “This is not an aveilus d’yachid [a private loss]; this has the halacha of aveilus d’rabim [a public loss] because [he] represented the rabim of Klal Yisrael [the Jewish pubic].”