Rabbi Mordechai Gifter, head of the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, died after a long illness on Jan. 18 at the age of 85. Gifter was a member of Agudath Israel’s Council of Torah Sages. Thousands attended his funeral in Jerusalem.
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