Early Life
Born Elihu Menashe Blachowitz in Poland, he emigrated to America as a child. As a young man he trained as a rabbi. He attended Yeshiva University, and graduated at the top of his class in 1940. He served a congregation in Woodmere, New York but after three-and-a-half years he left the pulpit to enter business.
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