Aaron Rubashkin

Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, or Aaron Rubashkin, an ultra-Orthodox Jew of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement born in the Russian town Nevel in the former Soviet Union, is the owner of a kosher butcher shop in Brooklyn, New York, opened in 1953. He is the head, usually referred to as "patriarch", of the Rubashkin family, dubbed the "kosher meat dynasty" by The New York Times, a tight-knit family well known among orthodox Jews in Brooklyn for its wealth and generosity towards Jewish causes, and past or present owner and president of most of the family′s businesses, many of which have faced legal problems, including Agriprocessors, once the largest kosher slaughterhouse and meat-packaging factory in the United States, that went into bankruptcy after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) staged a raid of the plant known as "Postville Raid".

Abraham Aaron Rubashkin was born in the late 1920s in Nevel, a Russian town with a population of approximately 15,000 at the eve of World War II, 20 percent of them Jews. He is the son of Getzel Rubashkin and his wife Rosa, Lubavicher Hasidim who raised their two sons and daughters as observant Jews in spite of the anti-religious repression in the Soviet Union. When the Germans occupied Nevel in July 1941, the Rubashkin family fled east, eventually reaching the Uzbek city of Samarkand, where he got married to Rivka Chazanov, of the Chein family of Nevel. After the war, the Rubashkin family left the Soviet Union via Lemberg and spent time in Austria, before they settled in Paris in 1947, where his father ran a grocery shop, and his mother served as a cook at a Jewish girls school, and where he became a butcher. In 1953 the family moved to New York City, where he and his partner opened Lieberman & Rubashkin Glatt Kosher Butchers on 14th Avenue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.

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