yeshiva was opened in Cleveland in the house of Yitzchak & Sarah Feigenbaum on November 10, 1941. As of 1954, it became officially titled the Rabbinical College of Telshe. They relocated to the present Wickliffe location in 1957. Telshe consists of a high school, college and post-graduate school. The yeshiva is a non-profit and is accredited through the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools. The yeshiva has a department of secular studies that grants a high school diploma. In the United States, the yeshiva was initially led by a faculty including the late Rabbis Elya Meir Bloch, Chaim Mordechai Katz, Boruch Sorotzkin, Mordechai Gifter, Chaim Stein, Aizik Ausband, and Pesach Stein. The 2013 student count of 130 included 80 in grades 9-12; the highest student count, in 1966, was about 425. Notable alumni Among the well-known alumni of the yeshiva are: Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Hacohen Bloch, Chief rabbi of Bausk and Plunge Rabbi Noson Ordman, Rosh Yeshiva Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London) Ezriel Carlebach (1909–1956), Israeli journalist and editorial writer Rabbi Naftoli Carlebach, Orthodox Jewish rabbi and accountant Rabbi Nachum Zev Dessler, Cleveland, Ohio Rabbi Azriel Goldfein, founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg Rabbi Chaim Gutnick, Melbourne Australia Rabbi Chaim Dov Keller, Chicago, Illinois. Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe Chicago Rabbi Zev Leff, Moshav Mattityahu, Israel Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich Rabbi Dov Yehuda Schochet, Toronto Canada Former Rabbi in Basel Switzerland and former Chief Rabbi of The Hauge Netherlands. Rabbi Schochet was part of a secret society made up of Telz Alumni seeking to keep rabbinic standards throughout the world, and to that effect with great self sacrifice he lived in war torn Europe even after the mass migration to the USA, Israel etc. Many considered him to be a natural choice to join the Telz yeshiva Cleveland leadership, but due to internal "politics" he was not given the position. Rav Schochet settled in Toronto Canada with his wife and ten children, and quickly established himself as a leading force of Judaism in the rabbinic world and as well as a much beloved teacher whose attention to each student was legendary. Following a miraculous story with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and studying the Rebbes hashkafa, Rav Schochet became a complete follower of Schneerson in Mind, Body and Spirit. Rabbi Avraham Tanzer, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva College of South Africa Branches Telshe Chicago. In 1960, the yeshiva