Valley Torah High School is an Orthodox Jewish high school located in North Hollywood, California, a northern suburb of Los Angeles. The school has two separate divisions: a Boys Division, and a Girls Division. The current Dean and Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Avraham Stulburger. The Boys Division Principal is Rabbi Dovid Felt. The Girls Division Principal is Rachel Grossman. The Secular Studies Principal for both divisions is Randy Rutschman.
Valley Torah is theologically aligned with the Chofetz Chaim school of thought. This religious philosophy is rooted in the Musar movement of 19th century Lithuanian Jewry. The teachings of Musar emphasize the need for human beings to constantly strive for self-improvement, thereby allowing them to become closer to God. This approach to life is articulated during the Rosh Yeshiva's weekly Musar Schmooze (sermon) to all divisions.
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“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
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—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)
“Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
—Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)