Bais Yaakov - Hasidic Schools

Hasidic Schools

Schools for girls within the Hasidic world share the same values, outlook, methodology, and aims of the non-Hasidic Haredi schools. However, they may place a greater emphasis on the teachings of their individual Hasidic Rebbes and much of the instruction may be conducted in Yiddish, which is still the home language for most Hasidic families in the world today. Also, in many Hasidic Beis Yaakov schools in Israel, English is often not taught, unlike in regular Bais Yaakov schools, where English is taught.

Schools for young Hasidic girls which are not part of the Bais Yaakov movement take names such as:

• Bais Rivka or Bais Chaya Mushka or Bais Chana for the Chabad Lubavitch girls' schools.
• Bnos Zion for the Bobov girls' schools.
• Bnos Belz or Beis Malka for Belz girls' schools.
• Bnos Vizhnitz for Vizhnitz girls' schools.
• Beis Rochel schools for girls of the Satmar community, as well as some girls' schools of related Hasidic groups (often of Hungarian background) follow a different curriculum of Judaic studies, which is less text-based and more focused on practical knowledge than the curriculum in other schools. Within their communities, these schools are usually referred to as offering education al pi taharas kodesh, roughly translating as "holy, pure education".