Telshe Yeshiva - Branches

Branches

• Telshe Chicago. In 1960, the yeshiva opened a branch in Chicago, Illinois. Within 10 years the branch in Chicago became independent of the yeshiva in Cleveland and no longer has an official formal connection to the yeshiva in Cleveland, although informal ties remain close.
• Kiryat Ye'arim (Telz-Stone), Israel. In 1977 Rabbi Mordechai Gifter brought a group of 20 students from Cleveland to open a branch of the yeshiva in Kiryat Ye'arim (Telz-Stone), Israel. Classes took place in several apartments. In 1979, when Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin died, Rabbi Gifter was asked to return to Cleveland and the Israeli branch closed.
• Yeshiva of Telshe Alumni. In the early 1980s, Rabbi Avraham Ausband, a grandson of the Telzer Rov Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, was sent to opened up the Yeshiva of Telshe Alumni in Riverdale, New York by his Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Gifter.
• Birchas Chaim. In 2001 Rabbi Chaim Stein's son, Rabbi Shmuel Zalman Stein, opened Yeshivah Birchas Chaim in Lakewood, NJ.
• Mesoras Mordechai. Founded in 2004, this branch is located in Ramat Beit Shemesh Aleph, Israel and headed by Rabbi Tzvi Feuer, a grandson of Rabbi Mordechai Gifter. The Yeshiva has approximately 25 students from the U.S., Canada, England and Israel aged 17–21. Mesoras Mordechai has published two issues of its Torah journal, "Kovetz Mesoras Mordechai", containing Torah novelae of previous Telshe Roshei Yeshiva, newly published novelae from Rabbi Gifter, and essays of the yeshiva's teachers and students. Closed in 2009.