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Beth Medrash Elyon

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “yeshiva in spring valley”. Today it says “four-year”.
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Beth Medrash Elyon is a four year, not-for-profit yeshiva in Monsey, New York . It was considered one of the elite yeshivas during the 1950s and 1960s. It closed in the 1970s due to disagreements among the leaders of the yeshiva . Its past Roshei Yeshiva have included Rabbis Reuven Grozovsky , and Gedalia Schorr . The two brothers, Rabbis Dovid Schustal and Shlomo Feivel Schustal studied there as well. Their father Rabbi Simcha Schustal was the Rosh kollel . The yeshiva was subsequently reopened. It was headed by R' Don Ungarischer , who was the son-in-law of R' Reuven Grozovsky . Rav Ungarischer died on October 30, 2011. Tuition is $7,800 per year, and room and board is $2,800.1 Application to the school requires a high school diploma or a GED as well as letters of recommendation.2 The college uses a semester calendar, and the student-to-faculty ratio is 8. Practically all students get some form of financial aid, and the average grant aid to undergrads is approximately $8,000.3

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yeshiva in spring valley

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four-year

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