We looked into many many seminaries for our daughter. We are a Yeshivish NY family. Our daughter is a lovely girl who went to a huge BY in BP (guess which one!). She is smart and frum, got solid B’s, but graduated not terribly excited or directed regarding where she was going after she graduated. She wanted direction and to be inspired. We searched all the regular places her friends were going to, (Seminar, Meor, Tiferes, etc), nothing really spoke to her or us. When we were almost ready to give up, a family friend, whose daughter was in Halichos told us about her daughter’s experience and we were intrigued. What we found was a frum, solid place for girls who didn’t have “issues” but might be a little out of the box. The fact that it was small and away from the “big city distractions” was a big plus for us. The head of the seminary, Rabbi Cohn, worked with us regarding finances and we decided to go for it. What a great decision! It was warm, and caring. The staff was committed and dedicated. Our daughter was in a frum environment, one without secular music and where tznius was a given, but she didn’t feel like she was being smothered. She enjoyed the limudei kodesh and commented that she really felt like she was learning for the first time. Exciting and inspirational yet textural and authentic. She was in the full time limudei kodesh program and said that her program and the parnassah program girls were close and shared many limudei kodesh shiurim. They worked very hard but since they had Friday’s off it wasn’t so intense. They had homework and tests but she said it never seemed like that was the focus. It was very warm and friendly and she made good friends right away, with other like minded girls. It was a bit small (15 girls that year) but that didn’t seem to be a problem after she got used to it. I know they are trying to grow to about 30. All in all we were thrilled with the program and our daughter benefited tremendously. I strongly recommend it!
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