Hadar Hatorah

[1] The yeshiva, located at 824 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11213, was founded in 1962[2] by Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson, a Chabad activist, to accommodate baalei teshuva interested in full-time study in a traditional yeshiva environment.

It has been located in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, New York since inception.

[2] The yeshiva is a branch of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE).

Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, executive vice president and national director of the NCFJE, played a pivotal role in the yeshiva's development and was its dean.

[citation needed] The school accommodates students of all backgrounds, and with affiliation to all Jewish movements.