Havineini Bais Yaakov
Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem · Year after high school
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A Bais Yaakov seminary for the year after high school, founded and led by Rebbetzin Hindy Ullman and endorsed, it says, by Rav Elya Brudny, Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen and Rav Gershon Bess. Its text-based curriculum is built around an in-depth Chovos Halevovos course alongside Chumash, Nach, Halacha, Tefilla and Emunah, with reports, Yemei Iyun and frequent trips. Students live and learn in a villa in Kiryat Mattersdorf.
At a glance
- Outlook, in its words
- Bais Yaakov Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- The dorm, which the site calls the Mattersdorf Villa, has a patio, porches, a dining room, a classroom and a student kitchen. The home page lists three meals a day, catered under Badatz hashgacha. Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Price
- $26,900 a year (tuition $12,000, board $7,900, room and other $7,000) for 2024-25 (the school). Source (opens in a new tab)
Not on their website when we checked: founding year, class size.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Chovos Halevovos in depth, Chumash and Nach, Halacha: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch with Mishnah Berurah; Halacha Pesuka for Sephardic students, Tefilla, Emunah, Reports and weekly quizzes, Yemei Iyun
- Who runs it
- Rebbetzin Hindy Ullman, Founder and Principal; Rebbetzin Rochel Friedman, Mechaneches
- Also on their site
- Certified BYH Teacher's Training Program
- Mishna Torah Yomis program
- Hallel kumzitzes
- Annual production
- Shabbatons
- Price
- $26,900 a year (tuition $12,000, board $7,900, room and other $7,000) for 2024-25, as published by the school. From the tuition sheet linked on the school's site, which is for a past year (enrollment due March 2024). Scholarships are listed for academics, chinuch families, kollel families and financial need. Ask the school for the current figure. See the source (opens in a new tab)
- Masa grants
- Their website doesn't say. Most year programs are registered with Masa, so ask. How Masa works
- College credit
- Their site says it works with Touro, Eastwick, Excelsior, TI, TTI, Sara Schenirer "and more", that its seminary transcript is accepted by most colleges, and that FAFSA and state scholarships are available. How credit works
Photos and videos
We don't copy pictures from the school's website, so their own galleries and social pages are linked instead.
Where it is
Address on their website: Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem
See it on the map
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Approximate: their website gives no street address we could place, so the pin marks the neighborhood, village or campus.
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Nearby
Straight-line distances, to give a sense of the area. Walking and driving routes are longer.
- Central Bus Station and Yitzhak Navon train station730 m · 0.5 mi
- Machane Yehuda Market1.5 km · 1.0 mi
- Sacher Park1.8 km · 1.1 mi
- Zion Square and Ben Yehuda Street2.3 km · 1.5 mi
- Hebrew University, Givat Ram2.5 km · 1.6 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport38.0 km · 23.6 mi
The area in pictures
These show the neighborhood, not the school itself.
Everyday life around here
From Jerusalem Local, a city guide by the same publisher: the practical side of a year in Jerusalem.
- Jerusalem for seminary and yeshiva students (opens in a new tab)
visa, phone and Rav-Kav, Shabbat, urgent care, safety
- A seminary or yeshiva year in Jerusalem (opens in a new tab)
the practical guide for students and parents
The year in detail
As described on the school's own website. A missing heading means their site didn't say.
- Dates
- Only a 2024-25 (5785) yearly calendar is posted on their site, so ask the school for current dates.
- A typical day
- Courses listed: Chumash (including a Mishna Torah Yomis run through Devarim), Nach, a weekly Keser Torah parsha course, Halacha, Tefilla, Chovos Halevovos (more than 20 perakim in about six months) and Emunah. A Pre-Tefilla class opens the morning. Students write reports and take a weekly quiz series, with tutors to help.
- Shabbat
- The home page promises "continual Shabbos provision". The program lists Shabbatons, and the posted calendar marks several Shabbos Yachad weekends, with sign-ups for staying in over holidays.
- Trips
- The home page lists bi-weekly trips; a student quoted on the site counts 40 trips and 15 educational tours in her year. Yemei Iyun come with related trips, and a Zos Chanuka trip is listed.
- Campus and housing
- The dorm, called the Mattersdorf Villa, at the edge of Kiryat Mattersdorf: patio, porches, dining room, classroom and a student kitchen. Three meals a day, catered under Badatz hashgacha. Mrs. Leah Ehrenreich is the Aim HaBayis.
- After the year
- Their site says it works with Touro, Eastwick, Excelsior, TI, TTI, Sara Schenirer and others, that its transcript is accepted by most colleges, and that FAFSA and state scholarships are available. A student quoted on the site came back as a madricha and Shana Bais student.
- Staff named on their site
- Rebbetzin Hindy Ullman - Founder and Principal; Keser Torah course
- Rebbetzin Rochel Friedman - Mechaneches; Toras HaBayis
- Rav Binyomin Jacobson - Nevi'im Rishonim (Melachim)
- Rabbi Chanoch Teller - Mesorah and Igros
- Rabbi Don Perkal - Daas Tevunos
- Rabbi Shimon Heller - Sefer Daniel and Yesodos B'Chumash
- Rabbi Yitzchok Jaeger - Hilchos Shabbos and D'var Halacha
- Mrs. Debbie Blachor - Administrative secretary and medical supervisor
- Mrs. Leah Ehrenreich - Aim HaBayis
- Mrs. B. Cohen - Registrar
