Overview
- Community notices report Zaltzman’s death on June 23, 2026 and announce a levaya passing 770 Eastern Parkway at roughly 2:15 PM with burial at Old Montefiore Cemetery at about 3:30 PM and shiva details to be announced.
- He was 91 years old and is survived by multiple children, grandchildren, and great‑grandchildren including Rabbi Yosef, Rabbi Boruch, Rabbi Mendel and daughters Shaina Browd, Rivka Sirota, Shterney Kanelsky, and Rochel Matusof.
- Born in the Soviet Union in 1936, Zaltzman spent years leading clandestine Jewish life there by hosting a home yeshiva and serving as chazzan in underground synagogues for fourteen years.
- After a five‑year struggle for exit permission he emigrated in 1971 to Israel, moved to the United States in 1980 to work with Russian‑speaking communities, and helped found Chabad Lubavitch of Fair Lawn (Bris Avrohom) in 1993.
- Colleagues and coverage highlight his cantorial legacy and the Rebbe’s guidance that led him to use singing as a tool of outreach, leaving institutions and melodies that continue to shape Russian‑Jewish communal life.