This is not a seminary question

Don’t write a book about something you know nothing about.

No offense.

Ok, thanks for clarifying. What is your background and what do you want to know about seminaries? Do you already know about the application process, the reasons girls go to seminary, parents’ attitudes? If you give me some idea what you’re looking for I’ll be happy to explain.

i can help

seminary is bad

it makes you dumb

madrasas are bad

they make you muslom

what type of character is your main character? modern, yeshivish…

it sounds like bjj is your best bet – it’s the only one pretty much all crowds know about….

Why don’t you make it take place in the future, when there is intergalactic travel, and seminaries don’t exist anymore?

where is the girl from? brooklyn or outa town?

Or a drop less yeshivish, Bnos Chava or MeOhr

I can hear bnos chava but is meohr realy difficult to get into?

Paging zeena.kasta. 🙂

Queen Bee -“In my perfect world, seminary would not exist,”

Now this statement I find objectionable. If you wrote, in my perfect world only girls wanting to become teachers went to seminary, not e/o – this I wouldn’t have a problem with.

But not the way you wrote it.

Do you have a problem with guys going to Yeshiva too?

Queen Bee -“Health, you know exactly what I was referring to.”

I actually don’t. Feel free to explain why you don’t believe any Jewish girl should go to seminary. After all this is Your thread.

“In my perfect world, seminary would not exist.”

See, now that is a good question: In a perfect world, do women exist?

Hashem made odom, and then said “lo tov heyos haodom levado” and so created chava. So did something change in between? Because if nothing changed, then why didn’t Hashem also make chava to begin with?

I don’t know the answer to that. My best guess is that Hashem knew all along, but there is some reason that chava had to be created from odom.

QB, you really are better off using a made-up name for the seminary, especially if your character goes there and anything important to the plot of your novel will happen there.

If you want her to apply to a few sems and then have her go to your fake, you can do that – use a handful of real names from the ones people suggest above and list your made-up name among them.

For made up names, you can either use something like Bnos Sara (which is good b/c it looks like the reference is to Sara Schenirer AH) or Bnos Torah, or Ateres Bas Torah etc. Just do NOT steal any names of Creedmoor sems, like Bnos Burqa, or my trademarked “120-denier seminary” line!

-Hatzlocho

haha…so funny. really this is serious!!!

Copying a couple from a list:

Darchei Bina

Afikei Torah

Be’er Myriam

Midreshes Tehilla

Machon Raaya

Ateres Bnos Yerushalayim

Peninim

Seminar Y-m

I have no idea who these appeal to or what their perceived qualities may be. My Pell Grant seminaries change names as soon as the bank transfers hit my Panamanian and Belize accounts :).