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577: 454:. In accordance with the differences between the Israeli and Diaspora Haredi communities, there are slight variations in outlook and philosophy between Israeli, American, and European Bais Yaakov schools. Israeli Bais Yaakov schools tend to de-emphasize the secular content of the curriculum, whereas in North America and Europe, the girls frequently receive a more diverse secular education. Large cities may have several Bais Yaakov schools, each with small variations in philosophy, typically over the importance placed on secular studies and/or accommodations made to secular values. 647: 1398: 381: 43: 1021: 140: 244: 285:
Schenirer saw that there was a high rate of assimilation among girls due to the vast secular influences of the non-Jewish schools that the girls were then attending. Sarah Schenirer concluded that only providing young Jewish women with a thorough, school-based Jewish education would effectively
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holding that contemporary conditions required departing from traditional prohibitions on teaching women Torah and accepting the view that it was permitted. Following the Chofetz Chaim's approbation, the Bais Yaakov Movement in Poland was taken under the wing of
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In Israel, nearly all of the Haredi schools for girls operate within one of three educational systems; these schools utilize the Israeli Ministry of Education's core curriculum, and most take the requisite Bagrut high school matriculation exams.
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was persuaded to assist Schenirer. The original Bais Yaakov was a seminary of sorts, intended to train girls to themselves become teachers and spread the Bais Yaakov movement. Grunfeld would lead the seminary from 1924 to 1929.
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Schools for girls within the Hasidic world generally share much of the same values, outlook, methodology, and aims of the non-Hasidic Haredi schools. However, they may place a greater emphasis on
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Secular studies sometimes reflect government proficiency requirements in such subjects as math, science, literature, and history in their respective countries.
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combat this phenomenon. She started a school of her own, trained other women to teach, and set up similar schools in other cities throughout Europe.
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The schools' primary purpose is to prepare students to be contributors to family and community, as good Jews, wives, professionals, and mothers.
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While many of these schools carry the Bais Yaakov name, they are not necessarily affiliated, though they may be for other reasons.
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in the mornings and a college preparatory program of secular studies in the afternoons. Judaic studies usually include study of
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Besides elementary and high schools, there are also post-secondary schools in the Bais Yaakov system, usually referred to as '
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Bais Yaakov-type schools exist in most Israeli cities, and are also found in major Jewish centers in Europe, such as London,
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Girls who were taught in the Bais Yaakov movement used their education as psychological support to survive World War II and
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The curriculum of Bais Yaakov differs from that of male-only yeshivas, where the core component of study is the
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Pre-war locations included over 260 towns and cities in Poland, with its central teachers' seminary in Kraków.
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community, as well as some girls' schools of related Hasidic groups (often of Hungarian background).
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Schools for young Hasidic girls which are not part of the Bais Yaakov movement take names such as:
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Students are required to uphold a dress code or wear uniforms which conform to the rules of
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The educational policies of most Bais Yaakov schools worldwide is generally that of
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and Moscow, and in several other Jewish centers around the world, including
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The second graduating class of the Bais Ya'akov in Lodz, Poland, in 1934.
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without the Jewish commentaries; so, Bais Yaakov girls are taught the
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AND TELL THE CHILDREN (lit., the sons) OF ISRAEL — explain to the
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Several Hasidic groups, also, extend their program to the
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in which the expression "House of Jacob" is understood by
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is that it is impossible to fully understand the written
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Branches exist in most North American cities with large
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Haredi Jewish primary and secondary education for women
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Most non-Hasidic Bais Yaakov schools in America teach
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elementary and secondary schools for girls worldwide.
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the punishments and the details of the commandments
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