Yehudah Jacobs
Mashgiach ruchani in Beth Medrash Govoha
About Yehudah Jacobs
Lived 1940 – 2020 (aged 79–80). Yehudah Jacobs was an American.
Yehudah Jacobs ( – April 27, 2020) was an American rabbi who served as the mashgiach ruchani of Beth Medrash Govoha.
Biography Jacobs was born to Rabbi Asher and Esther Jacobs in Cologne, Germany. He married his first wife, Ruthie, and they settled in Lakewood. He was soon appointed the mashgiach of Beth Medrash Govoha alongside Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, a position he held for many years. After his first wife died (c. 1985), Jacobs married his second wife, Esther. In 2010, he moved to Israel, where he stayed for a few years, all the while keeping up with the Lakewood Yeshiva. He later returned to Lakewood.
On April 27, 2020, he died of COVID-19 in Lakewood.
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mashgiach ruchani in Beth Medrash Govoha
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Yehudah Jacobs was born in 1940 in Cologne.
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Yehudah Jacobs died on 27 April 2020 in Lakewood.
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