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[[File:Hadar Hatorah.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Yeshiva Hadar Hatorah on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn]]

'''Hadar Hatorah''' (full name: '''Yeshiva Kol Yaakov Yehuda Hadar Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary''') is a [[Chabad]] men's [[yeshiva]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]].  It is the world's first yeshiva for ''[[baal teshuva|baalei teshuva]]''.<ref name="Press">{{cite news|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21830/Time_To_Give_Chabad_Its_Due.html|title=Time To Give Chabad Its Due|last=Kalmanson|first=By Rabbi Sholom B.|date=June 13, 2007|publisher=[[The Jewish Press]]|access-date=25 December 2009}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==History==
The yeshiva, located at 824 [[Eastern Parkway]], [[Brooklyn, New York]] 11213, was founded in 1962<ref name="crownheights.info">{{Cite web|url=http://crownheights.info/chabad-news/44507/hadar-hatorah-celebrates-golden-jubilee/|title = Hadar Hatorah Celebrates Golden Jubilee| date=June 7, 2012 }}</ref> by Rabbi [[Yisroel Jacobson]], a [[Chabad]] activist, to accommodate ''baalei teshuva'' interested in full-time study in a traditional yeshiva environment.  It has been located in the [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] community in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]] since inception. The yeshiva was first located within the [[Chabad]] world headquarters building at 770 Eastern Parkway before moving to its present location at 824 Eastern Parkway following growing enrolment.<ref name="crownheights.info"/>

The yeshiva is a branch of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE). Rabbi [[Jacob J. Hecht]], executive vice president and national director of the NCFJE, played a pivotal role in the yeshiva's development and was its dean. After his death the yeshiva was renamed as ''Yeshivas Kol Yaakov Yehudah - Hadar Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary'' in recognition of his efforts.{{fact|date=March 2021}} 

The yeshiva curriculum includes [[Torah study]], [[Jewish services|prayer]], [[Halakha|Jewish law]], [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] teachings and Jewish values.  Some of the courses are academically recognized and can be transferred to colleges for credits.{{fact|date=March 2021}} 

The school accommodates students of all backgrounds, and with affiliation to all Jewish movements.{{fact|date=March 2021}}

==Faculty==
*[[Rosh Yeshiva]]: Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg.<ref name="faculty">{{cite web |url=http://www.hadarhatorah.org/pages/faculty2.php|title=Faculty|access-date=25 December 2009}}</ref>
*[[Mashpia]]: Rabbi Yosef Boruch Wircberg.<ref name="faculty"/>
*[[Mashgiach]]: Rabbi Yankl Osdoba.<ref name="faculty"/>

==Notable alumni==
*Rabbi Yishaya Rose<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kamin-Meyer|first1=Tami|title=NYU Graduates Return to Campus as Jewish Leaders in Ontario|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/966095/jewish/Former-Students-Open-New-Chabad-House.htm|agency=Chabad|date=August 17, 2009|quote=Following his sophomore year, Rose transferred to Hadar HaTorah, a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn primarily for students who came from non-religious homes.}}</ref>
*Abe Saks<ref>{{cite news|last1=Zaklikowski|first1=Dovid|title=A Basketball Coach's Change of Career|url=http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/526877/jewish/A-Coachs-Change-of-Career.htm|agency=Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center}}</ref>
*[[Matisyahu]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/matisyahu.html|title=Matisyahu}}</ref>
* Rabbi Leible Morrison<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Sharing-the-essence-of-the-old-ways-9200687.php|title=Sharing the essence of the old ways|date=September 2, 2016}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.hadarhatorah.org/ Hadar Hatorah Yeshiva website]
*[http://www.hadarhatorah.org/pages/publications.php Published Reunion Journals by the Yeshiva] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415060409/http://www.hadarhatorah.org/pages/publications.php |date=April 15, 2012 }}
*[http://www.chabadnews.us/Old%20Aricles/AT%2000014.htm Beginning history of Hadar Hatorah]
*[http://www.jewishaudio.org/hadar-hatorah/ Online audio library of classes given at Hadar Hatorah]

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