Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr

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UK friends' trust of the Torah Ore yeshiva, Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem

Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr

Logo Torah Ore yeshiva.jpg
Type Other
Founded 2005-04-01 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1108790
Headquarters 37 the Ridgeway, London, NW11 8QP
Area served Israel


Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr is a trust (declaration of trust of 20 February 2005) registered on 1 April 2005; Israel is its only register area.[1] Its trustees are Philip Weinstein, Jack Emanuel and Jonathan Sanger. Its object is to support "the college Yeshivas Torah Ohr, Rechov Sorotzkin, Mattersdorf". In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £311,169 and expenditure £298,986 (2024: £379,182), of which donations to "Yeshivas Torah Ore in Israel" £297,750; funds were £24,410 (PDF p.2, 4, 7, 11).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE COLLEGE (YESHIVAS TORAH OHR, RECHOV SOROTZKIN, MATTERSDORF).THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH OF THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE INCLUDING PAYMENTS BY WAY OF GIFT OR LOAN (WITH OR WITHOUT INTEREST) TO INDIVIDUAL PERSONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSONS QUALIFY AS OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE COLLEGE AS DETERMINED BY ENGLISH LAW."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "the advancement of Orthodox Jewish religious education throughout the world and in particular by supporting the charitable activities of the college (Yeshivas Torah Ohr, Rechov Sorotzkin, Mattersdorf)."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Philip David Weinstein not recorded Shema Koli (1151966); The Menorah Primary School (312592); The Philip and Lorrain Weinstein Charitable Trust (802010)
Jack Jacob Emanuel 2020-10-15 Friends of Yeshivat Meor Hatalmud (1102117); The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust (265804); The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust (266098); UK Friends of Keren Tzlach (1110715)
Jonathan Sanger 2021-02-17 Chesed Avrohom & Raizel Limited (1197782)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-20 David Chontow; Philip David Weinstein; Ivor Smith [3]
2012-01-21 David Chontow; Philip David Weinstein; Ivor Smith [4]
2018-01-05 David Chontow; Philip David Weinstein; Ivor Smith [5]
2021-01-08 Ivor Smith – also trustee of The A. H. Trust, Borehamwood Torah Centre, Torah and Chesed (Bh) Limited, Mesila UK Limited; Philip David Weinstein – also trustee of Chai Lifeline, Chai-lifeline Cancer Care, The Menorah Primary School, The Philip and Lorrain Weinstein Charitable Trust, Shema Koli; Jack Jacob Emanuel (from 15 October 2020) – also trustee of UK Friends of Keren Tzlach, The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, Support, Friends of Baranovich [6]
2021-07-02 Jonathan Sanger (from 17 February 2021); Philip David Weinstein – also trustee of Chai Lifeline, Chai-lifeline Cancer Care, The Menorah Primary School, The Philip and Lorrain Weinstein Charitable Trust, Shema Koli; Jack Jacob Emanuel (from 15 October 2020) – also trustee of UK Friends of Keren Tzlach, The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, Support, Friends of Baranovich [7]

Jack Jacob Emanuel is recorded on the register as a trustee of Friends of Yeshivat Meor Hatalmud (1102117), The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust (265804), The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust (266098) and UK Friends of Keren Tzlach (1110715); Philip David Weinstein of Shema Koli (1151966), The Menorah Primary School (312592) and The Philip and Lorrain Weinstein Charitable Trust (802010); and Jonathan Sanger of Chesed Avrohom & Raizel Limited (1197782).[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £485,030 £485,971
2022-03-31 £205,799 £203,163
2023-03-31 £568,909 £458,527
2024-03-31 £267,998 £379,182
2025-03-31 £311,169 £298,986

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2006 389,071 316,204 [8]
31 Mar 2009 550,872 485,146 [8]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[17]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 donations to Yeshivas Torah Ore in Israel £297,750 (PDF p.4, 11).[2]

Israeli partners

Torah Ore, a yeshiva and kollel on Sorotzkin Street in Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem.[2][18]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
The yeshiva is in Kiryat Mattersdorf, a north-west Jerusalem neighbourhood west of the 1949 armistice line.[2][18] Low – Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[19] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[20][21][22][23] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[24]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[25] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[26]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[27]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[28]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[29]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[30]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Yeshivas Torah Ohr", "Torah Ohr" returned 0 contributions in total.[31]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 4 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[6]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Charity Commission, Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr (1108790): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1108790, contact and trustees (capture of 20100720) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1108790, contact and trustees (capture of 20120121) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1108790, contact and trustees (capture of 20180105) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 1108790, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Register entry 1108790, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Register entry 1108790, financial history (capture of 20100720) UK Government Web Archive.
  9. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  10. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  11. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  12. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  13. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  14. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  15. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  16. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  17. ↑ Friends of Yeshivas Torah Ohr accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 File:Torah Ore yeshiva.jpg Wikimedia Commons, photograph by Yoninah, 22 June 2011, CC BY-SA 3.0, viewed 15 October 2026 ("Torah Ore yeshiva in Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem").
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-10 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; alerts were shown only for Solev Co Limited (254623) and Lehachyos (1170523).
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  21. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  24. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  25. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  26. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
  27. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Torah Ohr' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  28. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1108790 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  29. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-10 screening covered 337 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
  30. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  31. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Torah Ohr" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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