Years: 1911–1983
Primary city: Bronx
Rabbi Yerucham Gorelick was a Lithuanian-American rosh yeshiva and one of the Roshei Yeshiva at RIETS, where he taught for four decades. He was formed in the European yeshivos of Lomza, Radin, and Brisk, and was associated with several educational institutions in America, including Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem and Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe. His career was defined by rigorous Talmud teaching and by the establishment of institutions for Torah study in the Bronx and South Fallsburg.