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Profiles

  • Allen Rubin / Reuben, # 1867 Bartow Co GA voting (1820 - d.)
    1880 boards with Thomas Murphy family in Cartersville, works at meat market, age 60.
  • Arthur Rubin (1905 - d.)
  • Grand Rabbi Asher Yeshaya Rubin, 2nd Ropshitzer Rebbe (c.1777 - 1845)
    Author of Or Yesha, son-in-law of the Zera Kodesh Ropshitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, or rabbinical family and group who are descendants of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Ropshitz (1760-1827). Ro...
  • Barbara Ann Blaine (1956 - 2017)
    Barbara Blaine, who was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest as a teenager and went on to found the nation’s most potent advocacy group for abuse survivors, died on Sunday in St. George, Utah. Sh...
  • Beila Rubin (1740 - 1802)
    Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via sister Chana Breindel Ben Nathan Silberfeld (born Ben Yitzhak Horowitz) by SmartCopy : Sep 3 2015, 7:02:55 UTC

About the Rubin surname

I really do not know where the surname Rubin comes from. However, There is a Rubin in my community who is a Cohen. He claims that the name Rubin comes from the Ruby stone on the Choshen that was worn by the Cohen Gadol (High Priest), hence the origin of him being a Cohen.

As far as I know though, I am not a Cohen.

Rubin and Rabin could essentially be same name different pronunciation . Derived from the word Rabbi