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Yeshiva Torah Vodaas (or Mesivta Torah Vodaas) is a yeshiva
Yeshiva

Yeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and History of responsa....
 located in the Kensington
Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington, also known as "K-ton/K-town", is a neighborhood in the center of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn. It is the area south of Prospect Park and the Green-Wood Cemetery....
 neighborhood of Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. It was originally founded as a yeshiva elementary school in 1917 by Binyomin Wilhelm
Binyomin Wilhelm

Binyomin Wilhelm was the founder of Yeshiva Torah Vadass.Born in Lodz, Poland, he was the oldest son of a Radoshitzer chassidic family. In his teens he left by himself to the United States....
, his friend Louis Dershowitz, and Rabbi Zev Gold
Wolf Gold

Rabbi Wolf Gold was a rabbi, Jewish activist, and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence ...
. Rabbi Gold was elected as the yeshivas first president and chose to name Torah Vodaas after the yeshiva of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines ???? ???? ????? , was a Lithuanian Jews Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement....
 in Lida
Lida

Lida is a city in western Belarus in Hrodna Voblast, situated 160 km west of Minsk. It is the fourteenth largest city in Belarus....
 where he had studied in his youth. The founding members of the yeshiva soon offered the principalship of the institution to Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz

Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was an early leader of Orthodox Judaism and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath, a Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, and Torah U'Mesorah, an outreach and educational organization....
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Yeshiva Torah Vodaas (or Mesivta Torah Vodaas) is a yeshiva
Yeshiva

Yeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and History of responsa....
 located in the Kensington
Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington, also known as "K-ton/K-town", is a neighborhood in the center of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn. It is the area south of Prospect Park and the Green-Wood Cemetery....
 neighborhood of Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. It was originally founded as a yeshiva elementary school in 1917 by Binyomin Wilhelm
Binyomin Wilhelm

Binyomin Wilhelm was the founder of Yeshiva Torah Vadass.Born in Lodz, Poland, he was the oldest son of a Radoshitzer chassidic family. In his teens he left by himself to the United States....
, his friend Louis Dershowitz, and Rabbi Zev Gold
Wolf Gold

Rabbi Wolf Gold was a rabbi, Jewish activist, and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence ...
. Rabbi Gold was elected as the yeshivas first president and chose to name Torah Vodaas after the yeshiva of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines ???? ???? ????? , was a Lithuanian Jews Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement....
 in Lida
Lida

Lida is a city in western Belarus in Hrodna Voblast, situated 160 km west of Minsk. It is the fourteenth largest city in Belarus....
 where he had studied in his youth. The founding members of the yeshiva soon offered the principalship of the institution to Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz

Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was an early leader of Orthodox Judaism and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath, a Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, and Torah U'Mesorah, an outreach and educational organization....
. From 1922 to 1948, the yeshiva was headed by Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, under whose leadership a yeshiva high school - known as the Mesivta - was opened in 1927. Later he opened a Yeshiva Gedola as well.

"Torah im Derech Eretz
Torah im Derech Eretz

Torah im Derech Eretz is a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism articulated by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch , which formalizes a relationship between traditionally observant Judaism and the modern world....
" historically influenced the yeshiva's philosophy , but today it is strictly haredi.

One of the current roshei yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the Dean of a Yeshiva . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh ? meaning head, and yeshiva ? a school of religious Jewish education....
 is Rabbi Yisroel Belsky
Yisroel Belsky

Yisroel Belsky is a rabbi in the United States who has served with the Orthodox Union since 1987. He resides in Brooklyn, New York. He is one of several rosh yeshivas in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas....
, who is also a posek
Posek

Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
 for the Orthodox Union
Orthodox Union

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America , more popularly known as the Orthodox Union, or OU, is one of the oldest Orthodox Judaism organizations in the United States....
. The yeshiva has had many prominent roshei yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the Dean of a Yeshiva . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh ? meaning head, and yeshiva ? a school of religious Jewish education....
, including Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Pam
Avraham Yaakov Pam

Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Pam was the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York.Rav Pam began his career at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in 1938, when was appointed maggid shiur there, at a time when secularism was on the rise in the United States, even amongst Orthodox Jews....
, Rabbi Shlomo Heiman
Shlomo Heiman

Shlomo Heiman was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Rosh Yeshiva of the most prominent yeshivas in Europe and USA....
, Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky
Yaakov Kamenetsky

Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky , was a prominent rosh yeshiva, posek and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community.He was born in the hamlet of Kalushkove, Lithuania, in 1891....
, Rabbi Gedalia Schorr
Gedalia Schorr

Rabbi Gedalyahu Schorr was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva. He was regarded as the "first American Gadol" , an expression coined by Rabbi Aharon Kotler....
, and Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky
Reuvain Grozovsky

Refael Reuvain Grozovsky was a leading Orthodox Judaism rabbi, Jewish religious leader and rosh yeshiva known for his Talmudic analytical style....
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