About
Educational Mission
The goal of the Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools is to offer qualified enrollees a superior a well-rounded, high caliber Judaic educational experience. Its raison d’être is to provide quality Jewish education to every student that can demonstrate qualification and a desire to learn.
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Based on a commitment to make Jewish education available and accessible to Jewish students everywhere, and recognition of the inalienable right of every Jewish child to a Jewish education, Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools has assumed a leadership role in guaranteeing this right to Jewish girls, regardless of background or birthplace. Through educating our students, Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools’ professed goal is to cultivate generations of Jewish women who are both well-versed in their culture and heritage, and dedicated to preserving and promoting these assets within their communities and institutions.
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Our mission is timeless, idealistic and practical. The Jewish woman is the mainstay of her home and her community. Our graduates are trained and educated to take responsibility for transmitting Jewish knowledge and values. In view of the school’s mission, the values do not change. Living in the era of information explosion and access to high tech tools compels the higher education community to assist students to analyze and filter the information, and train them in critical thinking. In awareness of the current world situation, where society does not advocate lifestyle boundaries, Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools considers it pivotal that the knowledge gained at Jewish institutions of higher learning lead to an ethical and moral lifestyle. The studies must impact and be reflected in one’s daily life. Education should be aimed not only at the intellect, but also at the heart and soul of our students.
HISTORY
The Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools is a post-secondary academic institute of Judaic studies. Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools offers its qualified and motivated students intensive and diversified curricula in Hebrew, Jewish Studies and Education, anchored in the classical texts of Judaism and Chassidism and applied to the contemporary Jewish experience.
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As one of the leading Jewish institutions in the United States and Canada, the Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools prepares an annual cadre of qualified graduates.
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Tracing its origins to the fall of 1962, the Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools proudly points to its record of training hundreds of graduates and providing them with a high quality educational experience in the scholarly disciplines of Jewish studies, while simultaneously transmitting corollary values of personal responsibility and communal involvement.
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True to its mission, the Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools has succeeded in placing its alumnae as educators in over 75 cities worldwide, thereby promoting and perpetuating the educational values which they acquired at Division of Higher Learning of Associated Beth Rivkah Schools.
FACULTY AND STAFF
Faculty
Rabbi Yitzchok Barber
Rabbi Mordechai Dinerman
Rabbi R. Dubov
Rabbi Levi Garelik
Mrs. Hindy Gurwitz
Rabbi Yisroel Glick
Mrs. Rivka Gluckowsky
Mrs. Dena Gorkin
Rabbi Shneur Z. Hertzel
Mrs. Cipi Junik
Mrs. Sarah Lieberman
Rabbi Boruch M. Lipskier
Rabbi Yehuda L. Newman
Rabbi Yosef Y. Paltiel
Rabbi Naftali Silberberg
Rabbi Moshe Silman
Rabbi Yaakov Sputz
Rabbi Shlomo Sternberg
Mrs. Pearl Stroh
Mrs. Esther Twersky
Mrs. Esther Vilenkin
Mrs. Chanie Wolf
Rabbi Mendy Wolf
Administration
Mrs. Chana Gorowitz
Dean
Rabbi Sholom Goldstein
Chief Executive Officer
Mrs. Rivka Greenspan
Director of Finance
Mrs. Zisel Gurevitz
Financial Aid Administrator
Mrs. Hindy Gurwitz
Registrar
Board of Directors
Chairman: Rabbi A. Shemtov
Mr. Frederic Goldfein
Mr. Yerachmeal Jacobson
Mr. Dovid Junik
Mr. Yigal Niasoff
Mr. Itchik Orimland
Mr. Dovid Sputz
Mr. Mendy Gansburg
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Accreditation
Associated Beth Rivkah Schools Division of Higher Learning is accredited by the Association of Institutions of Jewish Studies (AIJS), a nationally recognized accrediting agency located at 500 West Kennedy Boulevard, Lakewood, NJ 08701
We are accredited to offer the following programs:
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Classical Torah Studies Certificate – 24 credits
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Classical Torah Studies Degree – 60 credits
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Advanced Classical Torah Studies Degree – 120 credits