| Yeshiva Torah Temimah | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Brooklyn, New York, | |
| Information | |
| Type | Single-sex education |
| Established | 1976 |
| Website | http://www.ytt.edu |
Yeshiva Torah Temimah is an Orthodox yeshiva with branches in Brooklyn, New York and Lakewood, New Jersey that was founded and is run by Rabbi Lipa Margulies. Currently, Rabbi Shlomo Feivel Shustal teaches the highest level students of the school.
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Located on Ocean Parkway in Flatbush, the school was founded as Yeshiva Torah Vodaath of Flatbush;[1] and it began operating under the name Yeshiva Torah Temimah in 1976.[2] The institution grew to social prominence between 1980 and 2000.[3]
The school provides a combined religious and secular single-sex education to approximately 900 male students,[4] including training in musar literature, history, classical Jewish scholarship and literature, mathematics, language arts and sciences.
The school's main building houses approximately 650 boys ranging in age from nursery school through tenth grade; the school maintains a separate building for senior high school and tertiary study, with an additional enrollment of about 250 students.[2] It has a student-teacher ratio of approximately nineteen to one, and is staffed by renowned teachers and rabbis.[4] The school is affiliated with the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools.
Graduates of the school generally pursue further Talmudic education in such institutions as the Brisk yeshiva and Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem, as well as Beth Medrash Govoha in New Jersey, with a significant percentage of school alumni occupying Rabbinic pulpits and positions of Jewish education. Many graduates go on to procure secular degrees in various fields and professions, becoming community lay-leaders.
The yeshiva made headlines when one of his teachers and assistant principal,[5] Rabbi Joel (Yehuda) Kolko was charged in 2006 with sexually abusing two first-graders and forcing an adult former student to touch him during a visit to the school. Five former students also filed suit against the yeshiva, alleging the school administrators knew about Kolko’s molestation of students for decades but sought to cover it up and intimidate students who spoke out. Kolko later pleaded guilty to two lesser counts of child endangerment and was sentenced to three years’ probation,[6] and has left the school.[7]