Rav Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky

Rav Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky was born in Chicago, and learned at Torah Vodaas in his early twenties, while serving in the army. He married Sora Gartenhaus in 1950 and joined Yeshiva Ner Yisrael in 1954. He became Rosh Yeshiva and replaced Rav Yaakov Weinberg after the latter’s petira. Rav Kulefsky left two sons: Tzvi Hirsch and Nosson and three daughters: Esther Chana (Abraham), Ettie (Rosenbaum), and Faigi Gruman, forty grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.