Articles written by Beth Sarafraz

Beth Sarafraz|Apr 4, 2014

This article originally ran in The Jewish Press Feb. 28, 2014. Rabbi Pinny Marozov, director of Chabad of Coney Island, wanted to do a mitzvah. So when he found out there was a Jewish man living on his own on the Upper West Side of Manhattan-a Jewish man who was about to turn 111 years old-he decided to pay a visit. The problem was that Alexander Imich, who has been officially verified as the oldest man in America, second oldest in the world (he was even congratulated by the New York State... Full story