The Torah Foundation of Milwaukee has been taking long strides since its inception in 1989 towards helping to build a community where those three principles are given the vibrancy of daily commitment and involvement. The Foundation has been a vehicle and catalyst for the growth of a traditional Jewish community where life-long Jewish education is an every day reality and where the values of Jewish history are the springboard to a bright future. It has played a substantive role in helping to raise the funds necessary to create two institutions that are unique and invaluable to Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Kollel a center for advanced Jewish studies and adult Jewish education and the Yeshiva Elementary School, offering yeshiva preparatory and secular education for children in K4 through 8 th grade. The mission of the Torah Foundation is to contribute to the building of a vibrant Jewish community in Milwaukee committed to the values and lifestyle of Orthodox Jewish tradition by enabling people of all ages to participate in the highest quality opportunities for religious education. Specifically, to further excellence in Torah education for adults and children, the Torah Foundation has committed itself to fund a portion of the overall needs of the Yeshiva Elementary School and the Milwaukee Kollel.
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Provide an experiential forum for all Jews in Milwaukee to cultivate Jewish thought and values and gain new insights through their participation in discussion groups, Shabbatones and other programs. History The Foundation and the two organizations it supports arose from a period of intense community soul-searching in the late 1980s. Rabbi Michel Twerski the spiritual leader of the community, described the decision in terms of two visions for the future Orthodox life in Milwaukee. The other vision brought a spiraling decline of Orthodox life in Milwaukee, as families moved to other cities that offered what they needed and where young couples chose other places to put down roots. The first vision was bold to the point of being unrealistic in many people's eyes.