Rabbi Yehuda Kalmen Marlow (17 February 1932 – 23 June 2000) was a German-American

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rabbi associated with the

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movement. Rabbi Marlow served as the rabbi of the Crown Heights Jewish community from 1985–2000.

Biography

Rabbi Marlow was born in

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, in 1932. His family moved to the United States in 1939. Rabbi Marlow later joined the

movement. Years later he was elected to the Crown Heights

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(rabbinical court), and eventually succeeded Rabbi

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as Av Beth Din. Rabbi Marlow died in 2000 from a heart attack. He was buried in the

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