Rav Menachem Kohn (1964-2006). Born to Mr. and Mrs. Yosef Yitzchak Eizik Kohn, both Holocaust survivors who had moved to Los Angeles after the war. He was the youngest of four brothers. A watershed in his life was his entry into the Telshe Yeshiva at the age of 14, following in the footsteps of his brothers who had also learned in Telshe. For the next 28 years, his neshama became bound to the yeshiva of Telshe, its Roshei Yeshiva and talmidei chachomim. Throughout the years, Reb Menachem penned his own chiddushei Torah, and a number of years ago he published two sefarim, one on Mesechta Beitza and the second on Mesechta Moed Kotton. He called the sefarim Ateres Avi, in memory of his father. The day before the accident which took his life, Reb Menachem went to Monroe to daven at the tziyun of the Satmar Rebbe on his yahrtzeit. He also went to visit the current Satmar Rebbe.
