Yeshiva Toras Chaim[1][2] was an American Haredi Lithuanian-type boys' and men's yeshiva in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn that was "established by the pioneering Rabbi Isaac Shmidman" [1][3] in 1927.
[4] The full name of the Belmont Avenue location, reflecting both the lower grades and the high school, was Yeshiva and Mesivta Torahs Chaim of Greater New York.
[3] In 1956 Binyamin Kamenetsky, who had taught at the Brooklyn location in the 1940s,[1] opened Yeshiva Toras Chaim of the South Shore,[5] "the first yeshiva on Long Island"[4][6] with Kamenetsky as its dean.
[5][7] "Seven years later, the two Jewish schools merged and moved to a new campus on William Street in Hewlett.
It focused on the greatness of each individual child, and the unlimited potential that every neshama possesses.