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 studied in Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood Township, New Jersey starting in the late 1950s under Rabbi Aharon Kotler.https://mishpacha.com/so-human-so-great-in-tribute-to-rav-yehuda-jacobs/ "He arrived in Rav Aharon Kotler’s Lakewood in the late 1950s" 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,Arem 2002, p. 240. Dershowitz 2006, p. 20. 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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