Mesivta Beis Yisroel Of Lakewood Closes Down, Possibly for being to strict

A Mesivta in Lakewood that had opened amidst hopes of successfully serving the town’s growing Chasidish population has closed down.

Mesivta Beis Yisroel, named after the Ba’al Shem Tov, was opened three years ago by R’ Shlomo Meyer, a local activist instrumental in the founding of many businesses and Mosdos in Lakewood. The Mesivta was geared towards encouraging the students to focus on what the administration considered important Chasidish practices in addition to providing an intense schedule of learning.

The enrollment growth at the Mesivta did not live up to the founders’ expectations. Recently, several Magidei Shiur left the institution and student enrollment, which was already down, fell even further as more students left throughout the past few months.

Some students blamed what they considered to be overly strict rules for the Mesivta’s downfall. They maintain that Lakewood does not have a clientele interested in what they consider to be such a militantly Chasidish environment. They offer such examples as punishments for speaking English instead of Yiddish or for being seen outdoors without a hat or jacket as regulations that ultimately drove students away.

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