Tzemach Yehoshua Cunin (March 27, 1976 – July 5, 2019) was an American rabbi, and the founder of the
Chabad
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of
Century City
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in
Los Angeles, California
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.
Life
Cunin was born on March 27, 1976, to
Shlomo Cunin, the director of Chabad-Lubavitch of California.
Cunin assisted his father in his ongoing effort to repatriate the
Schneerson Library from Russia to the United States beginning when he was a teenager and continuing into adulthood.
In 1990, Cunin founded the
Chabad
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of ...
of
Century City
Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles, California, United States. Located on the Westside to the south of Santa Monica Boulevard around 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown Los Angeles, Cent ...
in Los Angeles.
He also founded Beis Chaya Mushka, an all-girl school in Los Angeles.
Cunin married Ada Wilschanski in 2000;
they had five children.
He died on July 5, 2019, at 43.
References
1976 births
2019 deaths
Rabbis from Los Angeles
Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis
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