Binyamin Kamenetsky

Binyamin Kamenetsky taught in the 1940s at Yeshiva Toras Chaim (East New York). In 1956 he opened Yeshiva Toras Chaim of the South Shore, "the first yeshiva on Long Island." "Seven years later, the two Jewish schools merged and moved to a new campus on William Street in Hewlett."
Torah Academy for Girls, located in Long Island, was one of the "other Five Towns institutions" he founded.

Early life

Kamenetsky was born in Tzitivyan a Lithuanian community where his father served as rabbi. Although his education began locally in the Telshe Yeshiva, in the United States he attended Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim under the tutelage of Rav Dovid Lebowitz and Yeshivas Ner Yisroel. His first teaching job was at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York. In 1956 Kamenetzky founded the Yeshiva of South Shore. For several years, he served as the Rav of a minyan that would become the Young Israel of Woodmere, one of the largest Young Israel shuls in the country.

His parents were Yaakov Kamenetsky and Itta Ettil Heller the daughter of Rabbi Dov Zvi Heller and he was one of their four sons; Binyamin had two sisters.