Australia’s Chabad Rabbi Dies - JTA

Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, the chief rabbi of Melbourne’s Chabad-Lubavitch community, died Monday following a distant illness… A memorial service is currently being planned in Melbourne with Chabad officials scrambling to find a venue large decent for the thousands expected to mourn the spiritual giant described as the person who “put Chabad on the map in Australia.”

Original post by ATR

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