Valley Torah High School

Valley Torah High School
Address
12517 Chandler Blvd Valley Village , California 91607 United States
Coordinates	34.168950°N 118.406045°W / 34.168950; -118.406045
Information
Type	Independent, Yeshiva
Religious affiliation(s)	Chofetz Chaim
NCES School ID	00081953[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	250 (2020-2021)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	7.3[1]
Website	www.vths.org

Valley Torah High School is an Orthodox Jewish high school located in Valley Village, California. The school has two separate divisions (in different buildings and locations): a Boys Division, and a Girls Division. The current Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Avraham Stulberger.^[citation needed]

Valley Torah is hashkafically aligned with the Chofetz Chaim school of thought, which is a subset of Litvishe Haredi Judaism rooted in the Musar movement of 19th-century Lithuanian Jewry.[2] The high school is part of the Freelance League.

Athletics

Basketball

The Valley Torah Wolfpack won the 2011 Division 6AA CIF basketball championship, becoming the first Jewish school in Southern California to ever earn a CIF title, and the only orthodox Jewish school to do so.[3]

The Wolfpack have also won three national Jewish tournaments: Memphis Cooper,[4] Glouberman,[5] and the Red Sarachek Tournament at Yeshiva University. [6] They are the only Jewish school to accomplish all three feats.^[citation needed]

Ryan Turell attended and played as a shooting guard on the varsity basketball team at the school.[7][8] Playing for the high school, as a junior in 2016-17 he averaged 25.3 points per game, and as a senior in 2017-18 he averaged 34.3 points per game.[9] In 2018, he received a McDonald's All-American Game nomination, and was California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division IV State Player of the Year and First Team Division IV.[8][10]

Girls' Division

The girls' branch of the school is located on 12003 Riverside Drive, 91607. Previously led by master menaheles Sheindy Gross, it is now directed by Yael Wakslak Rosenberg. Gross left Bnos Devorah High School in the middle of a school year in order to join Valley Torah Girls' Division in 2014, where she stayed until 2022.

Notable alumni

• David Draiman (born 1973), lead singer for the band Disturbed.[11]
• Ryan Turell (born 1999), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League.[12]
• Ami Horowitz (born 1973), conservative documentary filmmaker and activist.^[citation needed]
• Leah Gottfried (born 1991), Orthodox Jewish actress and filmmaker.

References

1. "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for VALLEY TORAH HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved March 8, 2022.
2. Maryles, Harry. "Chofetz Chaim Musmach Tells It Like It Is on Charedi Child Molestation". Retrieved 3 October 2020.
3. "Valley Torah basketball wins 6AA title [UPDATE, video] | Sports |". Jewish Journal. Archived from the original on 2011-03-10.
4. "Valley Torah WOLFPACK 2017 Cooper Yeshiva H.S. Invitational Champions! – Cooper Invitational".
5. "Glouberman Tournament Champions". 12 November 2017.
6. "(2) Valley Torah Holds off (4) DRS; Finally Claims Elusive First Sarachek Tier I Championship". 29 March 2022.
7. "Ryan Turell - Basketball Recruiting - Player Profiles". ESPN.
8. Peleg, Oren (January 31, 2018). "Valley Torah's Turell Makes Elite Players List". Jewish Journal.
9. "Ryan Turell's High School Basketball Stats". MaxPreps.
10. Tennis, Mark (April 24, 2018). "Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2018". Cal-Hi Sports.
11. "David Draiman". MTV. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014.
12. "Ryan Turell". RealGM.

External links

• Official website