Yeshiva Toras Chaim
Yeshiva Toras Chaim (YTC)[1][2] is an all-male,[3] Lithuanian (Litvish)-style Talmudic academy in the West Colfax neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. YTC was founded in Denver in 1967. It is headed by the Roshei Yeshiva (deans), rabbis Yisroel Meir Kagan,[4] and Yitzchok Wasserman.
The student body is multi-state, including pupils from the East Coast.[5]
History
[edit]The yeshiva opened in the fall of 1967.
It was described by a local newspaper as "the only yeshiva between Chicago and the West Coast")[4] and the students were initially mainly from Denver and other western cities, with some from New York City, New Jersey, Baltimore and other east coast communities.
Academics
[edit]The yeshiva provides a full high school program (grades 9–12), a bais-medrash undergraduate program for post-high school bochurim or students,[4] and a chabura or religious study group for married men (kollel yungeleit). Students lodge in the yeshiva's dormitory facilities,[6] connected to the main yeshiva building.
Refusal of federal funds
[edit]The yeshiva is one of less than fifty private schools[7] in the US that offer college-level education—out of a total of more than 2600[8]—that refuse to accept federal funds (so-called Title IV financial aid, from the Higher Education Act of 1965). Most if not all other such schools are conservative Christian colleges. By rejecting federal funding, which includes financial aid for students, the yeshiva is not required to adhere to federal guidelines other universities do, including guidelines related to discrimination, investigations of accusations of sexual abuse, and the reporting of on-campus crimes.[9]
In particular, "can get exemptions if they can show they are controlled by religious organizations with whose beliefs Title IX requirements conflict."[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "1245 Utica Street, West Colfax, Denver, CO". New York Times.
- ^ "1900 Newton Street, Other Colima, CO". New York Times.
Yeshiva Toras Chaim High School
- ^ "Explore Yeshiva Toras Chaim High School". Niche. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ a b c Eric S. Elkins (May 15, 2007). "Connection to the Past". The Denver Post.
- ^ Wolfgang Saxon (February 16, 1996). "Sheldon Beren, 73, Oil Executive And Leader of Jewish Education". New York Times.
students from far beyond Colorado
- ^ Erica Meltzer; Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee (December 9, 2020). "Colorado school outbreaks nearly doubled in November as coronavirus cases surged". The Colorado Sun.
- ^ 46 as of 2016
- ^ "How Many Universities Are in the U.S. and Why That Number Is Changing". US News & World Report. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ a b See Ibby Caputo and Jon Marcus, "The Controversial Reason Some Religious Colleges Forgo Federal Funding," The Atlantic, July 7, 2016, accessed online at https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/07/the-controversial-reason-some-religious-colleges-forgo-federal-funding/490253/
