Family
He married Shoshana Poupko (d. 2009), with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Their daughter, Rivka Leah, married Rabbi Yehoshua Goldman, who directed the Vaad of Cincinnati for seven years before developing a brain tumor and succumbing to it three years later. The Goldmans' son, Eliezer Mordechai, also succumbed to a brain tumor at the age of 23.
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