:Yeshiva of South Shore

Binyamin Kamenetsky, the school's founder, who had been teaching in the 1940s at Yeshiva Toras Chaim (East New York),{{cite news |newspaper=The Jewish Press

|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/editorial/rav-binyamin-kamenetsky/2017/05/03 |title=Rav Binyamin Kamenetsky |quote=serving in the 1940s as first-grade rebbe in the Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York, Brooklyn |date=May 3, 1917}} asked one student why he was commuting daily from Cedarhurst. The boy said that his community did not have a yeshiva. With the encouragement of Yaakov Kamenetsky (his father) Binyamin moved from Brooklyn to Five Towns and "served as the Rav of a minyan that would become the Young Israel of Woodmere." In 1956 he "left his rabbinical position" and began Yeshiva Toras Chaim South Shore.{{cite news |newspaper=Hamodia |url=https://hamodia.com/2017/04/29/harav-binyomin-kamenetzky-ztl |title=Harav Binyomin Kamenetzky, ZT"L |date=April 29, 2017}} The school opened in September.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49ZpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 |title=Jewish Communities of the Five Towns and the Rockaways |publisher=The Jewish Heritage Society of the Five Towns |year=2015|isbn=9781467133913 }}

"Seven years later, the two Jewish schools merged and moved to a new campus on William Street in With the growth of the school came the need for another person to help run it; that person, Rabbi Chanina Herzberg, came with a unique approach to chinuch that was taught to him by his Rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld. It focused on the greatness of each individual child, and the unlimited potential that every neshama possesses. Rabbi Herzberg was a master at cultivating each Jewish neshama. Under his leadership, the Yeshiva continued to thrive for nearly four decades that he was at the helm. Rabbi Herzberg died in 2018.

Binyamin's son Mordechai later succeeded his father's position.{{cite news |newspaper=Yated}|url=https://yated.com/remembering-rav-binyamin-kamenetzky-ztl-upon-his-yahrtzeit/|title=Remembering Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky zt"l Upon His Yahrtzeit |date=April 11, 2018}}

A local newspaper described the impact of this school, and a girls' school begun by the same founder,TAG: Torah Academy for Girls has been described as a "powerful force in the transformation of the community."{{cite news |newspaper=5tJt.com (Five Towns Jewish Times) |url=http://www.5tjt.com/yoss-to-host-yom-iyun-in-memory-of-rav-kamenetzky-ztl/ |title=YOSS to Host Yom Iyun in Memory of Rav Kamenetzky, ZT"L |date=May 2, 2019}}

In 1988, when they found their facility overcrowded, they were rebuffed in attempts to rent unused public school space.{{cite news |newspaper=New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/17/nyregion/rental-rejection-annoys-yeshiva.html |title=Rental Rejection Annoys Yeshiva |author=Sharon Monahan |date=April 17, 1988}} Two years prior the school encountered what a member of the Nassau County Commission on Human Rights called "problems between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews here in the Five Towns."{{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/27/nyregion/holocaust-center-is-blocked.html |title=Holocaust Center is Blocked |author=Sharon Monahan |date=July 27, 1986}}

• Mesivta Ateres Yaakov: 1987-2003 was a part of Yeshiva of South Shore.

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