Can you afford to send your daughter to seminary — and can she afford not to go?
Every year, thousands of girls head to seminary in Eretz Yisrael. And there are astronomical costs associated with this year — costs that girls and their families sometimes have to prepare for years in advance.
Kosher Money sat down with Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald, who owns and runs Me’ohr Bais Yaakov seminary in Eretz Yisrael, and Mrs. Ahuva Heyman, a parent and director of Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore, to get a handle on what some see as an unaffordable trend. Why does seminary cost so much? And is it worth the price parents pay?
Rabbi Greenwald’s involvement in chinuch started more than 35 years ago, when he ran an Israeli yeshivah. At a certain point, though, the project became financially unsustainable. “I was traveling to fundraise more than I was in the yeshivah,” Rabbi Greenwald remembers.
Around the time he decided to close the school, Rabbi Refson from Neve approached Rabbi Greenwald with an idea. “Open another seminary.”
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