Sidney Rabb married Esther Cohn and had two daughters, Helene and Carol R. Carol, born in 1931, attended
Tufts University and Harvard Business School before joining Stop & Shop in 1985. She married a fellow Stop & Shop employee, Avram J. Goldberg. Avram, born in 1930, became executive vice president, then president of the company in 1971 and chairman of the board when his father-in-law Sidney died in 1985. Carol, then executive vice president, became president of the company. They were forced to resign from Stop & Shop soon after the company was sold to
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co in 1988 in a hostile takeover. Helene Rabb married Norman Cahners from Maine who founded The Cahners Publishing Company. Helene and Norman had three children, Robert, Andrew and Nancy. Norman Rabb married Eleanor Epstein and had two daughters,
Hope (born 1935) and
Jane (b.1938). Irving Rabb married Charlotte "Dolly" Frank and had two children, Betty Ann and James. Betty Ann Schafer née Rabb graduated from
Radcliffe College and married Jack Grier Schafer in 1964. A resident of
San Francisco, Betty Shafer is a trustee of
Earthjustice,
Brandeis Hillel Day School, The
Coro Center for Civic Leadership, and
SEO Scholars. James Rabb became a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel. Dr. Rabb is an overseer of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, the
School of Nutrition Science and Policy at
Tufts University and on the board of directors of
Jewish Family and Children's Service. He married Melinda Alliker Rabb, who became an English professor at
Brown University, and is a trustee of
WGBH and on the Board of Directors at
Celebrity Series of Boston. In 2013, the Jewish Family and Children's Service,
Greater Boston Food Bank and
Project Bread, with support from Betty and Jack Schafer and James and Melinda Rabb, launched the
Greater Boston Hunger Network. == Fourth Generation ==