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File:Margulies.jpgYeshiva Torah Temimah is a Haredi yeshiva with branches in Brooklyn, New York and Lakewood, New Jersey that was founded by Rabbi Lipa Margulies. In 2006 the yeshiva gained widespread notoriety for allegedly harboring a known pedophile, Rabbi Yehuda (Joel) Kolko, for over thirty years, and was the subject of a May 2006 article in New York Magazine]. Kolko has been indicted for child molestation ]and several civil lawsuits are also pending against the yeshiva.

Kolko's criminal trial is pending and the case has received mush media coverage. Jewish Press

1. The civil case index numbers: US District Court: 06-CV-2096; US District Court: 06-CV-2215: NYS Supreme Court: 37492/06; NYS Supreme Court: 268/07

• Orthodox yeshivas in the United States
• Haredi Judaism in the United States
• High schools in New York
• Clerical abuse