Please tell me about the Yeshivah of Skokie!

Hi ladies,
Is there anyone here who has information for me about the Yeshiva of Skokie please? What hashkafa is it, is it black hat, r/w, mo, or just plain frum?
I would like to know what the emphasis is on. Do they push for kollel or do they encourage or support a college secular education too?
What kind of boys go there from what kind of families?

TIA

Gold Member Joined: Jan 27 2010 Posts: 1464

Are you asking about the high school or the bais Medrash?

Op here. both. are they very different? I would really like to hear about both of them please, thanks for responding!

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 30 2009 Posts: 4951

Fasman Yeshiva High School is the yeshiva of skokie.

on a whole they are not black hatters, more knitted kippa types.

They may push for kollel (I dont know either way) but most of their students continue on to college and work. (there are some exceptions of course- but prob 85-90% are not in kollel)

they are connected with Hebrew Theological College- that is their bais medresh/college program.

OP here. thanks, so you would say that the high school is more MO than chareidi? is it serious MO , like I mean that the families who send there are generally shomrei halacha?

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I dont know overall but I do have a few friends that have/had family there.

mothers cover their hair. wear skirts. but I wouldnt be surprised if all the mothers there cant say the same. I would call the high school (and beis medresh as a whole) more MO then charedi, but still have some charedi to them. I think that most families are but again I dont know everyone that goes there...

check out their website
http://www.htc.edu/
has pictures and says their goals etc

thanks busydev. what about the beis medrash program, is it a place where somebody on the fence between chareidi and MO would be comfortble do you think? do most of the graduates end up with a profession?

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with the beis medresh program they have some people that go for the smicha program and some that do more college. There are black hatters in the beis medresh (and kollel is almost all or all black hatters) but plenty not.

I would think that it could work for someone not quite charedi or MO. as in shomer halachos but wants a career. I think many do go on to proffesions. really check out the website, it has lots of info about all the programs and alumni as well.

OP here. busydev, you are so helpful ,thank you so much! I am going to check out their website now, thanks
is it in the center of the skokie jewish community?
any more info, please let me know, I really really appreciate it!

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 30 2009 Posts: 4951

I could be wrong... but I think that it is not in the center of the skokie orthodox community. most of the orthodox families that live nearby are connected with the yeshiva. There is a young israel prob about a half a mile away and a shul in lincolwood that a few blocks over... but most of the skokie shuls (and thereby skokie community are about 2 miles away.

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The Rabbeim both in the high school AND in the Bais Medrash are more charedi then most of the talmidim and their families. They send their own children to Bais Yaakov/Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi, the more Yeshivish schools. The rabbeim are warm and caring. The secular studies are pretty top notch.

OP here.
you got it right peanut2,I am not from the states. I did not mean any offence grace, sorry. I am extremely confused about this MO thing, bec in my country of origin MO can include people who drive to shul on shabbos etc, they connect with orthodox bec there is not so much of anything else, which btw I think is a good thing in a way. at least they stay connected. in the MO schools, the vast majority of kids are not observant. so now you know where I am coming from.

also, my situation is complicat6ed to find something suitable for my ds. I am chareidi, but my dh has moved away from the chareidi world and likes to claassify himself as MO. This is the tip of hte iceberg of my problems. Crying or Very sad

Thanks for all the info, any more, keep it coming, thanks.

OP again.
the fact that the rebbeim are all rw / black hat chareidi, does that mean that they are trying to push their chareidi viewpoints on the students, or do they not get involved in hashkafa.?
I am asking this because a school that I am very familiar with has families of all types, from MO to chassidish, and the rebbeim seem to be on a mission to 'chareidize' all the kids from non-chariedi families, and I think htat this is something that my dh would really not go for.
TIA

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dh went there for a year about ten years ago and there was a MAJOR drug problem. He begged his parents all year to let him leave, and they only allowed it Purim time when his dad went to visit him and dh showed him all the drugs hidden in the dorm bathroom.

When my in laws tried to let the school know, they ignored it because they didn't want to address it, and publicly lower the reputation.

It was awhile ago, but DEFINITELY something to look into. Also, a very high percentage of his skokie class is no longer frum.

So, all the traditional people who drive to Chabad shul are Chabad? modern Chabad? No one would say that, they are simply traditional (which includes rejecting or at least not seeking out untraditional places of worship).

Same with Orthodox shuls.
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Okay - a new amother here.

Cultural difference -

Where I come from, (Not the US), Modern Orthodox can include - Women who don't cover their hair except maybe shul and candlelighting if they want, they keep kashrus but will eat anything vegetarian in a treif restaurant, the teens are not shomer negiah, women wear short sleeves, pants etc., shabbos is kept but full details (laws of bishul etc.) are mostly unknown. They probably wouldn't drive to shul though. So, I'm sure we're just experiencing some cultural misunderstandings here.