Valley Torah High School Explained

Valley Torah High School
Address:12517 Chandler Blvd
Religion:Chofetz Chaim
Enrollment:250 (2020-2021)
Grades:9–12
Zipcode:91607
Country:USA
Ratio:7.3

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.

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.[1] 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.[2]

The Wolfpack have also won three national Jewish tournaments: Memphis Cooper,[3] Glouberman,[4] and the Red Sarachek Tournament at Yeshiva University. [5] They are the only Jewish school to accomplish all three feats.

Ryan Turell attended and played as a shooting guard on the varsity basketball team at the school.[6] [7] 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.[8] 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.[7] [9]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maryles . Harry . Chofetz Chaim Musmach Tells It Like It Is on Charedi Child Molestation . 3 October 2020.
  2. Web site: Valley Torah basketball wins 6AA title [UPDATE, video] Sports ]. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110310190633/http://www.jewishjournal.com/sports/article/valley_torah_basketball_wins_6aa_title_20110308/. 2011-03-10. Jewish Journal.
  3. Web site: Valley Torah WOLFPACK 2017 Cooper Yeshiva H.S. Invitational Champions! – Cooper Invitational .
  4. Web site: Glouberman Tournament Champions. 12 November 2017.
  5. Web site: (2) Valley Torah Holds off (4) DRS; Finally Claims Elusive First Sarachek Tier I Championship. 29 March 2022.
  6. Web site: Ryan Turell - Basketball Recruiting - Player Profiles. ESPN.
  7. Web site: Valley Torah’s Turell Makes Elite Players List. Oren. Peleg. January 31, 2018. Jewish Journal.
  8. Web site: Ryan Turell's High School Basketball Stats. MaxPreps.
  9. Web site: Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2018. Mark. Tennis. Cal-Hi Sports. April 24, 2018.
  10. Web site: David Draiman . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202145211/http://www.mtv.com/artists/david-draiman/biography/. dead. February 2, 2014. MTV.
  11. Web site: Ryan Turell. RealGM.