Yeshiva Torah Temimah is an Orthodox

Orthodox Judaism

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 yeshiva

Yeshiva

Yeshiva is a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah study. Study is usually done through daily shiurim and in study pairs called chavrutas...

 with branches in Brooklyn, New York and Lakewood, New Jersey that was founded and is run by Rabbi

Rabbi

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 Lipa Margulies. Currently, Rabbi Shlomo Feivel Shustal teaches the highest level students of the school.

Location and history

Located on Ocean Parkway

Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn)

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 in Flatbush

Flatbush, Brooklyn

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, the school was founded as Yeshiva Torah Vodaath of Flatbush; and it began operating under the name Yeshiva Torah Temimah in 1976. The institution grew to social prominence between 1980 and 2000.

Curriculum

The school provides a combined religious and secular single-sex education

Single-sex education

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 to approximately 900 male students, including training in musar literature

Musar literature

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, history

History

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, classical Jewish scholarship and literature, mathematics

Mathematics

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, language arts

Language arts

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 and sciences

Science education

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Students

The school's main building houses approximately 650 boys ranging in age from nursery school

Nursery school

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 through tenth grade; the school maintains a separate building for senior high school

High school

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 and tertiary

Tertiary education

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 study, with an additional enrollment of about 250 students. It has a student-teacher ratio of approximately nineteen to one, and is staffed by renowned teachers and rabbis. The school is affiliated with the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools

Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools

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.

Alumni

Graduates of the school generally pursue further Talmud

Talmud

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ic education in such institutions as the Brisk yeshiva and Mir yeshiva

Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)

The Mir yeshiva , known as the Mirrer Yeshiva or The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. With 6,000 students, it is the largest yeshiva in Israel. Many of the students are from the United States and Canada. It is also believed to be the largest yeshiva in the world...

 in Jerusalem, as well as Beth Medrash Govoha

Beth Medrash Govoha

Beth Medrash Govoha is a Haredi yeshiva located in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. It is commonly known as BMG, or Lakewood Yeshiva....

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.

Controversies

The yeshiva made headlines when one of his teachers and assistant principal, 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, and has left the school.