The Torah and Technology School was founded in 1989, with the aim of providing vocational training to members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

[6] TAV received government funding via an affiliation with the public CÉGEP Collège Marie-Victorin,[3] through which students could obtain a Diploma of College Studies or Attestation of College Studies certificate.

[7] In 1999, TAV signed a three-year[8] agreement with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), under which students at TAV could earn university credits.

[9] The partnership ended the following year due to objections from UQAM's professors' union that some courses at TAV were gender-segregated and taught in English.

[12][13] Quebec's Ministry of Education and Higher Education cut the institute's funding in 2009 by ending its partnership with Collège Marie-Victorin, on the grounds that TAV didn't offer classes on Jewish holidays and that some classes were gender-segregated.