Biography
Litzman was born in 1948 to Polish survivors of the Holocaust, in a displaced persons camp in Germany. When he was two years old, the family immigrated to the East New York section of Brooklyn, & then to the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, where he grew up. At the age of 17 he continued his studies in Israel. His first job was as principal of the Hasidic Beis Yaakov girls' school in Jerusalem.
Litzman has five children and lives in Jerusalem.
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