2 staffers at yeshiva admit $3M food con

FRAUD WAS on the menu at a Brooklyn yeshiva, two former officials of the Jewish religious school admitted Friday.

The former Central United Talmudic Academy staffers pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to a con that consumed $3.2 million intended to help feed needy students.

The federal funds were issued through the state Department of Health as reimbursement on school meals that were reported but never served at the Williamsburgbased school, prosecutors said.

The scam stretched from 2013 to 2015, according to the indictment unsealed last August.

Elozer Porges, 44, and Joel Lowy, 29, both said Friday in court that they conspired to commit mail and wire fraud.

Both are on the hook to pay back the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Child and Adult Care Food Program to help schools and other institutions feed at-risk children.

“I know this is wrong and I’m sorry for having done this,” Porges said during his plea.

He claimed he didn’t line his own pockets, though; the money, he said, was meant to help the school and its students, Porges said. Lowy also had to eat some crow. “I know this was wrong and I accept my actions,” he told Judge Nicholas Garaufis.

Both men are scheduled to be sentenced in July. They could be looking at three to four years behind bars, according to prosecution estimates.

The men and their lawyers declined to comment outside court.