Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah

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Ohev Shalom Talmud Torah Congregation of Olney, commonly known as OSTT, is an Orthodox synagogue located in Olney, Maryland.HistoryThe OSTT was founded in 1995 by fourteen families in the Olney community, holding services in a private home on Georgia Avenue.OSTT started as a branch of Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah Congregation of Washington, D.C., now known as National Synagogue, it became independent in 2001–2005. However the formation of the new spin-off congregation resulted in a legal conflict that eventually involved a lower US court's decision being overturned by the Appeals Court of the District of Columbia in 2005 that sent the case for arbitration in a beit din (Jewish court of law) to settle a dispute of financial control of common assets that were in dispute between the older Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah Congregation-National Synagogue located in Washington, D.C. and the newer one of the spin-off OSTT congregation located in Olney, Maryland that borders on the original "older" neighborhood.By 2014 OSTT was independent and had expanded under the leadership of Rabbi Shaya Milikowsky for ten years. Milikowsky is an alumnus of the Haredi Ner Israel Yeshiva of Baltimore, Maryland, and a former president of the Association for Jewish Outreach Programs, as noted by historian Adam Ferziger in the late 1990s Milikowsky previously led a Jewish outreach training program known as "MAOR" at the Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore and still runs it from OSTT.