BDE: Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Kotlarsky, 74, OBM

With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Kotlarsky OBM, the Vice Chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and pioneer in the administration of Shlichus across the globe. He passed away on Tuesday, the 27th of Iyar, 5784.

He was 74 years old.

Born and raised in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in 1949, his father, Rabbi Tzvi Yosef (Hershel) Kotlarsky OBM was a native of Otwosk, Poland who spent the World War II years in Shanghai.

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky married Rivka Kazen, one of six daughters of Rabbi Shlomo Schneur Zalman Kazen, who opened the first Jewish girls school in France in 1946 at the directive of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.

He is survived by his wife Rivka (Crown Heights), and their children; Rabbi Mayer Kotlarsky (Boca Raton, FL), Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky (Crown Heights), Rabbi Yisroel Kotlarsky (Lafayette Hill, PA), Rabbi Levi Kotlarsky (Brooklyn, NY), Rabbi Dovid Kotlarsky (Chicago, IL), Mrs. Chana Wolowik (Five Towns, NY), Mrs. Sarah Benjaminson (Illinois), Mrs. Nechama Greenberg (Vista, CA), and Mrs. Golda Perlstein (Gainesville, VA).