the Hasidic Rebbe and Hasid can be explained. Personal life Zalman Posner's parents were Rabbi Sholom and Chaya Posner, who served as longtime Chabad emissaries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a member of the Chabad community in the United States in the early twentieth century, Posner was one of the first yeshiva students trained at the Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn which was established in 1940 and opened in 1941. His wife Risya Posner predeceased him in 2007. Posner died in Rancho Mirage, California on April 23, 2014. See also Congregation Sherith Israel (Nashville, Tennessee) Chabad-Lubavitch References External links Articles by Zalman Posner hosted at Chabad.org and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive. 1927 births 2014 deaths American Hasidic rabbis Hasidic rabbis in Mandatory Palestine Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries