A home just like your own

Our Story

In 1962, the streets of Eretz Yisroel were flooded with newly-arrived immigrant girls, ‘Oloth’ who had nowhere to live or learn. The leading gedolim in Eretz Yisroel saw a tragedy in the making and sat down to find an immediate solution. 

Rav Yechezkel Sarna, Rav Yechezkel Abramsky and Rav Yehuda Tzadke put their scholarly minds to it. The very next day, Beth Oloth was born. ‘A home for Oloth’, it would house a dormitory, a school and a high school and it would serve as the girls’ warm and loving home from early teens until their marriage.  

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beth oloth building
beth oloth building
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beth oloth teacher talking to a girl

As the years evolved, so did the need. There were too many orphans living in neglect or poverty. Some of them lost their parents to terror. 

Still others, while having their parents, are akin to orphans, lacking an able, loving adult in their lives, either due to emotional or physical illness, marital strife or abuse. 

All these orphans needed a home. And there were hundreds of them. 

In 1976, the orphanage moved to a new building, their current one. 

Inside those happy walls, Beth Oloth has raised 1000’s of disadvantaged children and taken them to their chuppa, being instrumental in the sanctity of a Torah family and the continuity of a generation. 

 

Our Staff

Given our high staff ratio — 40 members to 130 girls — we are uniquely equipped to handle even the most difficult cases. This gives us the ability to accept every girl who arrives on our doorstep. Our dedicated psychologists and social workers on staff are highly qualified and experienced, and invest heart and soul to support every girl. 

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The girls
make a
180 degree
turnaround

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If I were to put our older girls next to their younger selves, you would simply not recognize them. We see tremendous results B’’H. Our girls make a 180-degree turnaround. However hard our work is, it’s always worth it.

Rabbi Baruch Wasserman
Menahel Beth Oloth

 
light blue heart

The girls
make a
180 degree
turnaround

If I were to put our older girls next to their younger selves, you would simply not recognize them. We see tremendous results B’’H. Our girls make a 180-degree turnaround. However hard our work is, it’s always worth it.

Rabbi Baruch Wasserman
Menahel Beth Oloth

The girls
make a
180 degree
turnaround

If I were to put our older girls next to their younger selves, you would simply not recognize them. We see tremendous results B’’H. Our girls make a 180-degree turnaround. However hard our work is, it’s always worth it.

Rabbi Baruch Wasserman
Menahel Beth Oloth

Our Mission

We believe that no Jewish girl should face loneliness, neglect or abuse.
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We’re determined to create a world

where girls from disadvantaged backgrounds are nurtured in a loving environment 
 where all their emotional, physical and academic needs are abundantly met 
where they are empowered to develop into healthy, happy young ladies
to become confident, contributing members of society.

where girls from disadvantaged backgrounds are nurtured in a loving environment 

 where all their emotional, physical and academic needs are abundantly met 

where they are empowered to develop into healthy, happy young ladies

to become confident, contributing members of society.

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Build the mothers of tomorrow

Lital desperately wanted to get away from home — and her absent mother was fine with her request.

When she was 13, Lital came to Beth Oloth.

They had every reason to say no.

Besides the underlying trauma, Lital had been exposed to so much, she could be a negative influence to her dorm mates. But Beth Oloth doesn’t turn any Jew away.

Beth Oloth went above and beyond, investing in a social worker and therapist to heal a disillusioned Lital from her past.

After many wonderful years living in Beth Oloth, Lital is now a morah, happily married to a maggid shiur, and building a beautiful Torah home.

It’s a 180-degree turn, one anyone who remembers younger Lital cannot believe.

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