Overview
Employees
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Carteret, NJ
The Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret was founded in 2006 by Rabbi Azriel Brown and Rabbi Yaakov Mayer, both graduates of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem, and Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Baltimore. With the backing of Rabbi Aharon Feldman, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky, among numerous others, Rabbis Brown and Mayer opened the yeshiva in the suburban north Jersey town of Carteret. Carteret had previously boasted a Jewish community with two synagogues in the 1950s but its Jewish presence had dwindled since then, to the point that it was no longer able to support the remaining synagogue, a Jewish community center, which closed in 2002. Garson Gruhin and Lou Raiman, remaining board members of the Jewish community center who worked hard to preserve Jewish life in Carteret. Garson Gruhin along with his son Mark I. Gruhin, Esq., arranged to transfer the properties to the yeshiva. In 2017 the Roshei Yeshiva founded a high school, Mesivta of Carteret, starting with a ninth grade for the 2017-2018 school year. The Mesivta's studies are broken into two halves. The first half of the day is focused on Talmudic texts and rabbinic literature, mussar (Jewish ethical literature) and practical halacha (Jewish law). The second half of the day is focused on general studies, including math, history, science, language arts, computers, business economics, public speaking and more. The Yeshiva Gedola's studies are primarily Talmudic texts and rabbinic literature. Their day is broken into 3 main sessions, focused on the study of Talmud at varying degrees of depth. In addition, small sessions are allotted for mussar and practical halacha. The Yeshiva offers Talmudic students the opportunity to pursue their religious studies in an isolated setting, away from the busy – and potentially distracting – hustle of much larger cities. The Yeshiva is already a rapidly growing force, attracting students from cities across the United States, Canada, and Central America.
