Kol Torah yeshiva

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Kol Torah is a yeshiva in the Bayit Vegan area of Jerusalem, Israel. It was founded in 1939 by Rabbis Yechiel Michel Schlesinger (1898-1948) and Boruch Kundstadt in 1939, both from Germany. It was the first mainstream Orthodox yeshiva to teach in Hebrew, as opposed to the accepted (at the time) Yiddish. This innovation had the crucial support of the Chazon Ish. After Rabbi Schlesinger's death in 1949, Kol Torah was headed by the famous Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach until his death in 1995. Currently Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger (oldest son of the founder) is the Rosh yeshiva. Kol Torah currently has a student body of over 1,000.

Many illustrious rabbinical figures of current Orthodox Jewry are Kol Torah alumni. The staff included illustrious personalities such as the late Rabbis Dovid Hecksher, Yosef Yehuda Reiner, Rav Yehoushua Y. Neuwirth (Author of Shemiras Shabbos KeHilchasa) and Shimon Moshe Diskin (1932-1999).

Kol Torah is famous for its High Standards in Talmudic teaching and quality of students which are recognised as being some of the foremost Talmudic Students in the world.

Rabbi Yeshaya Portnoi is dean of the American programme. Mr Binyamin Liebeskind is the general and financial manager of the yeshiva.

The Address of the Yeshivah is: 32 Hapisgah Street, P.O.B 16023 Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, 91160, Israel. Tel: (+972) 2 6414674 Fax: (+972) 2 6437487