In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Rita's memory to Death with Dignity or Alzheimer's Association .

Rita Verbin, 82, of Coconut Creek, Florida passed away on July 19, 2024.

Rita was born in Siberia, Russia, on July 20, 1941 to Sasha and Bella Gurwitz. She and her family spent the first part of her life emigrating to Israel, which she finally did in 1962. There she worked as a graphics designer in the mathematics department of the Weitzman Institute. While visiting in the U.S., she met her first husband, Mordechai Verbin, who was from Israel, and they decided to stay in the U.S. and raise their family in Philadelphia, PA.

Rita worked as the director of education at Temple Adath Israel, a prominent synagogue in a suburb of Philadelphia for 35 years. After retiring from there, she worked for 10 years as a Hebrew teacher in the Perelman Hebrew school. Over the course of her life she learned to speak Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hebrew, and English. She studied graphic design in Poland and received numerous teaching certificates and awards in the United States.

She is pre-deceased by her first husband, Mordechai Verbin, who passed away in 1992; and her parents, Sasha and Bella Gurwitz; and her brother Vov Gurwitz.

In 2004, Rita met Joel Benjamin. Together they decided to move to Coconut Creek, FL after retiring. They married in 2015.

Rita is survived by her husband, Joel Benjamin; her children, Elana and Gregg Verbin; her step-daughter, Miriam Benjamin; her sons-in-law, Ian Lesser and Matt Huber; and her grandchildren, Zoe and Zachary Bizer, Naomi Huber, and Noah Verbin.

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