Valley Torah High School is an

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high school located in

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. The school has two separate divisions (in different buildings and locations): a Boys Division, and a Girls Division. The current

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is Rabbi Avraham Stulberger. Valley Torah is hashkafically aligned with the

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school of thought, which is a subset of

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rooted in the

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of 19th-century Lithuanian Jewry.

Athletics

Basketball

The Valley Torah Wolfpack won the 2011 Division 6AA

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basketball championship, becoming the first Jewish school in

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to ever earn a CIF title, and the only orthodox Jewish school to do so. The Wolfpack have also won three national Jewish tournaments: Memphis Cooper, Glouberman, and the Red Sarachek Tournament at

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. They are the only Jewish school to accomplish all three feats.

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attended and played as a

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on the varsity basketball team at the school. Playing for the high school, as a junior in 2016-17 he averaged 25.3 points per game, and as a senior in 2017-18 he averaged 34.3 points per game. In 2018, he received a

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nomination, and was

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(CIF) Division IV State Player of the Year and First Team Division IV.

Notable alumni

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(born 1973), lead singer for the band

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(born 1999), basketball player for the G-League

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* Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Los Angeles Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing High schools in Los Angeles County, California High schools in the San Fernando Valley Jewish day schools in California Lithuanian-Jewish culture in the United States Mesivtas North Hollywood, Los Angeles Orthodox Judaism in Los Angeles Private high schools in California {{LosAngeles-school-stub