Ottawa Torah Institute was a

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high school located in

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, providing secular and Judaic education. Founded in 1982 as a boys' school, it was Ottawa's first full-time Jewish high school. In 1990 the high school expanded to include a girls' division, known as Machon Sarah. Graduates from Ottawa Torah Institute earned an

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History

In 1981, Reuven Bulka brought a Jewish educational program from

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to Machzikei Hadas synagogue. In 1982, this was followed by

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s Yisroel Morgenstern and Yaakov Deitsch of

opening a Yeshiva High School for boys and establishing OTI as Ottawa's first full-time Jewish high school for boys. Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Porat was head of school for twenty five years. The school was later run by the team of Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Harris (from 2013 to 2019) and Rabbi Dovid Mandel (from 2013 - 2018). It was headed by Rabbi Baruch Dov Perton from 2018-2021. Rabbi Michael Fine then ended the 2021 school year; in 2022, Ottawa Torah Institute and Machon Sarah merged with the Torah Day School elementary. The high school is now known as Yeshiva High School of Ottawa.

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