A new seminary is joining the ranks of Jerusalem’s prestigious schools next year, opened by Rav Yisrael Levin of the ‘Seminar HaYoshon’, calling the new school Beis Sarah. The new school is intended for the elite of the elite, ‘high society’ if you will, students on the highest Torah level, graduates of Yeshivas Chevron and Beit Matisyahu and the like.
According to the Kikar Shabbos report, the new school will focus on small classrooms and a high level of education towards becoming a leader in the Beis Yaakov system.
It appears mounting pressure to end discrimination against Sephardi girls and calls for regional registration prompted the move, and it is Rabbi Levin’s hope the new school will only be suited for the cream of the crop – perhaps a code for “no Sephardim allowed”.
Rav Levin envision the regular students from both the litvish, chassidic and Sephardi tziburs will continue applying to today’s schools while only the select few will be accepted for the new school. Those in the know explain this will not be for girls of ‘working chareidi’, homes, known in Israel as those who wear blue shirts; rather for the more modern population, the high-society like graduates of Yeshivas Chevron and Beis Matisyahu.
Acceptance to the school will be up to the committee, which includes Rosh Yeshivas Sfas Emmes-Gur HaGaon Rav Shaul Alter, Rosh Yeshivas Slonim HaGaon Rav Moshe Brazovsky (a son of the Slonim Rebbe), and members of the Moetzas Gedolei Hatorah HaGaon Rav Baruch Solovechik.
It has yet to be decided what subjects and degrees will be offered in the new school aside the limudei kodesh.
It is also reported that in recent months, candidates for the school have been tested and checked, reportedly from the “finest families”, the best of those studying in Yerushalayim today.
Principal Mrs. Chaya Strauss, a graduate of Gateshead, stresses “Above all, the new school will remain on the highest ruchniyus level as the students and their families, with the best possible resources and offering the best of Beis Yaakov with quality deeply-rooted high-level education in Yiddishkheit together with high educational levels and acceptable. With certificates on the highest possible professional levels.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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No doubt they will all have to come from families with the right shade of white tablecloth and the right style of chandelier.
I don’t know if this is Purim Torah , but if not, it’s one giant novol birshus hatorah. Absolutely disgusting.
Only for the elite?? You do not care about the Jewish people, you care only about yourselves and your image. Only bad can come out of a move that is so exclusive as this.. we are an inclusive nation please never forget that
I hope this article is being written as a joke tongue in cheek.
pardon me for saying that it seems that this is really creating snobbism.
my daughters went to plain and simple Bais Yaakov and came out fine with nice friends and married nice boys.
To make a school only for the elite somehow seems strange to me
The article uses the word “best” nearly a dozen times the way Trump describes his golf courses. What is the “best” about the girls who will be admitted? Their parents’ income and ability to pay “huge” tuitions, their political connections with a few of the Rabbonim mentioned OR hopefully their intellectual skills and desire to return to their communities and work in chinuch for other girls. Their is an implicit sarcasm in the article that the last thing needed now is an elitist and exclusionary school that will deny admission to worthy talmidim from the Sephardish schools.
I’d like to point out that nowhere did it define “the finest families” as having money only that it will be for girls coming from learning parents, father is learning…not that saying that is much better…..I wonder how they plan on funding this. either the no Sephardim and that those only from finest families is a Jewish oxymoron cuz any person who would knowingly be a part of that is missing the point of Yiddishkeit in its entirety……although I will say it does sound like this article was written with bias so I would still like to think it’s not as black as white as it is written…no pun intended.
!א פרייליכן פורים
I’m not sure what goes on in other communities, but where I live only the girls from the “average” schools are ever available to babysit. The “excellent” girls from the “top” schools in town are just to “tired” (and arrogant). When you personally meet these stupid people who run these elite schools its hard to find a genuine fiber in them! Our society would be better off without these empty shells!!!
YWN is the epitome of fake media, yellow journalism, and “baalei machlokes”. Someone should count how many times the words “appears to be” or “perhaps” are included in your articles. My granddaughter was accepted into this school and her father works in computers and is not a graduate of Chevron or Beis Mattis.
Worse than this is how some of your readers just accept it as the truth. My daughter went to a presentation from Mrs. Strauss and was so impressed, she came out with tears in her eyes. It was tremendously refreshing for her to hear true hashkofah from a sincere and Gateshead-bred teacher speaking from the heart.
YWN, you sound exactly like CNN, etc.–trying to bring good people down with your insinuations and “motsi shem ra.”
All Jewish girls are princesses and all Jewish boys are princes.
The highest level of ruchami us is achdus and a Havasu israel
Correction on the wording above…the highest level of ruchnias is achdus and ahavas yisroel.
To add to the above, my granddaughter has sephardi friends who were accepted into the school. That 3rd paragraph, that it “appears” that there will be no sephardim is an outright lie and I don’t believe that it came from Kikar Shabbos news, but from your own bias. Also, how do you know the reason he’s opening the new seminar; did you speak to him??? There is a terrible shortage of seminars; why do you suspect him of ulterior motives? YWN, you are too much–please delete the word Yeshiva from your name.
There is a clip of Rav Steinman talking about these elite schools available on popular video sharing websites. He says that he comes from Brisk. The Brisker Rov sent his children to the regular town school, and I think they turned out alright. He says that this type of school stems from gaavah.
1) so in other words, they wouldn’t accept Moshe Rabanu’s son because his mother is a convert with no yichus and his father has a stuttering problem
And they wouldn’t accept Yitzchak with a brother that went off the derech
and the list could go on and on
2) I’ll be sure NEVER to send my girls to this ‘elite’ school.
I think their nose is so high in the air, they have lost reality and reminds me of those ‘jews’ who visit iran and gaza.
This doesn’t sound like my religion, I don’t want new religion their starting cause my chumash doesn’t sound like theirs
disgusting!
What a Chilul Hashem! Instead of work of other defoliant to see that EVERY bad Yisroel gets accepted to a schiool, these people create a full EXCLUSIONARY environment in the education of the bond Yisroel!! Is it any wonder then , that Noshiach has not come yet? This is the opposite of achdus which is a prerequisite of the gelatin shelling!!!
Thank you for posting the article. It’s an incredible public service so us parents are aware of the goals of the school. We now know enough and will ensure our sons never ever ever marry one of these “elite” girls.
Is that the girls or the fathers who cant wear blue shirts?
It is sad that we cannot be sure if this is indeed a Purim article.
As a parody, it unfortunately hits home.
I am nearly sure this is not for real, I jolly well hope so, but even as a joke, it’s not funny!
I’m sorry, but the photo includes at least one left-handed desk, and left-handedness is simply not the normal among the finer girls from the best families.
So even if you are considering girls from this school, there are still drishas v’chakiros to perform.