[3] In August 1914, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin started the school as an afternoon Talmud Torah in the Mogen Avrohom Synagogue on Farnsworth Street, meeting five days a week.
A. Freedman moved to Detroit from New York City at the urging of the leader of the Torah Umesorah Day School movement, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz.
[2] In late 1991, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit agreed to purchase the B'nei Moshe Synagogue in Oak Park for the benefit of Yeshiva's girls' school.
He served for 22 years and oversaw the growth of Beth Yehudah from a 400-student day school (pre-K–12), to a full-service educational institution for more than 850 children and 2,500 adults of the broader Detroit Jewish community.
A large portion of Mayerfeld's success is attributed to the great fundraising achievements of businessman Rabbi Binyomin Adler, who was hired in 2001 to propel the yeshiva's base.
In 1999, Cohen became Director of the Partners in Torah Adult Education Program and Rabbi Avrohom Fishman were appointed principal of the Boys' School and dean of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah.
[4] In 2010, after the death of Fishman, Rabbi Yitzchok Grossbard was named dean of the institution overseeing all divisions of the yeshiva and Beth Jacob.
In 2012, Rabbi Bentzy Schechter was named director of Partners Detroit overseeing the chavrusa learning program and hundreds of other activities.
The yeshiva is known locally for its annual fund-raising dinner, held at the Detroit Renaissance Center, which usually features a guest speaker.