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Rabbi Moses Josef Rubin, Orthodox Rabbi in the Bukovina region of Romania and later in New York. During the years 1922-1940, he served as Chief Rabbi of Cimpulung-Moldevenesc in the Bukovina. On Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement (October 12, 1940), all Jewish homes in Cimpulung were plundered and the Jews were assaulted by the infamous Legionnaires who received their orders from Berlin. The valuable library of Rabbi Rubin was destroyed. He was mistreated and was given a document to sign which stated that he had hidden dynamite in the synagogue to be used in acts of sabotage. Because he refused to sign this disgraceful document, he and his son were arnessed to a cart loaded with stolen goods and driven at revolver point, under a rain of blows to a specific location. After this incident the Rabbi and his family escaped to Bucharest. During the war he founded the first "Vaad Hatzalah" or emergency committee in Bucharest to aid Jewish people deported to the Transnistria labor camps. After the war, Rabbi Rubin emigrated to the United States where he founded the "Center for European Rabbis" which dealt with post-war reparations for European Rabbis who had lost their communities and source for income and with preventing the destruction of Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Moses Josef Rubin died in 1980. |
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