Yeshiva Torah Temimah, the school that supported Kolko, the sexual pervert, has been sold to Satmar.
The purchase of the building was revealed at a Motzei Shabbos dinner benefiting the Mosdos of Satmar in Boro Park under the leadership of the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, HaRav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum.
The building being purchased by the chassidus is located on the corner of Ocean Parkway and Ditmas Avenue, and housed Torah Temimah’s Mesivta and Bais Medrash for decades.
Yeshiva Torah Temimah was founded and built by the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Lipa Margolis, in 1958. Rabbi Margolis started off as a bus driver for Yeshiva Torah Vadaas and then graduated to being their star fund raiser. When R' Margolis started his own Yeshivah, he called it Yeshiva Torah Vadaas. The Real Torah Vadaas then took him to Bais Din, and R' Margolis was forced to change the name to Torah Temimmah.
The yeshiva grew to prominence between 1980 and 2000. He was Niftar in January 2022. The Rosh Yeshiva, Hagoan HaRav Shlomo Feivel Schustal, left the Yeshiva around 10 years ago, and opened his own Bais Medrash in Lakewood due to the number of Bochrim at the yeshiva growing smaller as the Litvish community in Flatbush declined.
Satmar announced that the name of the building will be “Binyan Lipa Friedman,” who donated $5 Million dollars towards the purchase. Lipa is a son of the famous “Moshe Gabbai” of Satmar.
Torah Temimah still runs a vibrant Yeshiva K’tana and Mesivta in their original building on the same street, located at 555 Ocean Parkway. Sources say that the funds of this building sale will not be going to the current Yeshiva Torah Temimah on Ocean Parkway, but to the other Mosdos of the original Torah Temimah, currently located in Staten Island.
The news is bittersweet for thousands upon thousands of Bochrim (now married with children) who learned in Torah Temimah, and for those who were abused by the Yeshiva's star teacher, Rabbi Kolko who abused any boy that could walk.
Is there a number how many kids where molested by kolko?
ReplyDeleteWhat caused the “abuse” ?
ReplyDeleteThe makom or the person ?
As in gavrah or cheftza.
The “nafkeh mineh” is if “abuse” will continue under a different gavrah due to the cheftzah since the makom is gorem or since the gavra is gone -literally- the makom can’t be gorem “abuse”.
So the Brooklyn yeshiva split with marguelis and let him take some assets? Is this then cashing out? How did they shield it from lawsuits? Is Satmar paying cash to the family?
ReplyDelete3 months tops and the building will be damaged and the place will have garbage everywhere.
ReplyDeleteSatmar has been renting the building for well over 5 years. It's in good condition.
DeleteA new Simcha hall for all kind of weddings and affairs will be named Ateres Margoolis.
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