[1][3] Through the help of philanthropist Jacob Rutstein,[4] in 1940 the yeshiva purchased the seven-story former Municipal Bank Building at Pitkin and Stone Avenues[5] (now Mother Gaston Boulevard) in Brownsville.

Yitzchok Hutner joined the faculty during 1936–1937, and gave monthly lectures as rosh yeshiva from 1943 to 1980.

In the late 1970s, a branch was opened in Jerusalem called Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok (Fear of Isaac).

[9] The leadership then passed jointly to Halioua's son Yosef and son-in-law Tzvi Fink.

[17] The yeshiva maintains a summer location, Camp Morris, in Sullivan County, New York.