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charliehall
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“In the time when Beis Yackov was started there were many against precisly becuase it was against Mesorah.”

Actually, it wasn’t. Women were getting Jewish educations in Germany and America under Orthodox rabbinic supervision decades before Sarah Schenirer was born. It just took the rabbis of Eastern Europe a while to get with the program — and to their great credit, they did!