[8] Rabbi Nosson Scherman, then principal of Yeshiva Karlin Stolin Boro Park,[8] was recommended to Zlotowitz as someone who could write copy, and they collaborated on a few projects.

[5] In late 1975, he wrote an English translation and commentary on the Book of Esther in memory of a young married friend,[10][11] a rebbe in Yeshiva Torah Emes[12] who died childless,[13] and asked Scherman[10][14] to write the introduction.

[19][1] By the end of the year of mourning for a parent, Zlotowitz's son Gedaliah[1] was listed in newly released ArtScroll publications, alongside his late father's partner Nosson Scherman, as general editor.

Ira is founder and president of Eastern Union Funding, a commercial real estate mortgage brokerage in New York City.

[22] His older brother Bernard (1925-2015) was a leading rabbi in the Reform Jewish movement in the USA and had originally attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaas.