Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov - Ohr Eliyahu (YAYOE) is a private

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day school located in the Fairfax District of

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History

Ohr Eliyahu Academy, originally called the Emanuel Streisand School of the Pacific Jewish Center, was founded in the mid-1980s in

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. As the school grew, Ohr Eliyahu relocated to a former

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public school near Kenneth Hahn State Park. After leasing the site for four years the school purchased the campus for $1.4 million in 1999.

New Campus

In April 2009, Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov - Ohr Eliyahu bought the former

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campus, located in the heavily Orthodox Jewish populated Fairfax District.Community Briefs: Orthodox School Purchases Daniel Murphy Building, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, April 2, 2009.
/ref> The old site was sold and is now the Stoneview Nature Conservancy. The 2010-2011 school year marked the beginning of YAYOE's use of its newly remodeled campus.

Curriculum

YAYOE offers a dual curriculum with both secular and Judaic studies for students from kindergarten through eighth grade with separate boys and girls divisions. Originally, a majority of the Judaic studies program was taught in Hebrew, but this is no longer the case. However, Hebrew is still taught as a subject. The Yeshiva's outlook and curriculum are based upon the philosophies of the

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movement of Rabbi

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. The Principal, Rabbi Shlomo Goldberg, was a student of Rabbi Leibowitz, and many of the Judaic Studies Rabbis studied at Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva. The school has music and art programs and various after-school enrichment electives. YAYOE is accredited by the Bureau of Jewish Education and the

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Administration

Headmaster: Rabbi Shlomo Goldberg Torah Studies Principal: Mrs. Malca Schwarzmer General Studies Principal: Position split among various members of the staff YAYOE Staff
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Awards

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awarded the school and Rabbi Shlomo Goldberg the Hersh Potok Memorial School of the Year Award and the Maurice and Goldie Rothman Award for Outstanding Educator respectively.http://www.yayoe.org/profile.htm
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