Bais Rivka

Bais Rivka

Bais Rivka (or "Beth Rivkah") is the name used for the Bais Yaakov-type private girls' schools of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement.

The main branch is located in Crown Heights, named "Campus Chomesh", Brooklyn, and there are a number of other branches in Jewish communities around the world. The network was founded in 1945 by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and it is claimedFact|date=February 2007 that about 60,000 students are enrolled in the schools.

ee also

*Beis Yaakov
*Role of women in Judaism

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