Telshe Yeshiva (Chicago)

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Telshe Yeshiva (Chicago) (or Telshe Chicago or Telz Chicago) is a

At the request of members of the Chicago Jewish Community who wanted a Lithuanian-style Yeshiva in their midst, Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz selected a group of exemplary students, led by Rabbis Avrohom Chaim Levin and Chaim Schmelczer, to open the Chicago branch. Rabbi Chaim Dov Keller joined them a year later.

Divisions

Mechina

The Mechina ("preparatory school") offers a four-year course for students of high school age in Talmud, Hebrew Bible, Prophets and Jewish law leading to acceptance in the yeshiva division. The Mechina incorporates the Telshe High School, which offers a full four-year senior high school general studies program accredited by the Illinois State Board of Education.

Yeshiva

The

Graduate program

The kollel graduate school offers a six-year program to students who have completed the Yeshiva course to research specific areas of Talmudic law and ethics, culminating in a "Second Talmudic Degree", equivalent to a master's degree.

The Rabbinic Division

Telshe Chicago offers two two-year programs for students who have completed their undergraduate studies.

• The "First Rabbinic Degree" - yoreh yoreh
  semicha ("ordination") encompasses the laws of kashrut ("dietary laws") and shechita
  ("ritual slaughter").
• The "Second Rabbinic Degree" - yadin yadin semicha is offered to students who have completed their "First Rabbinic Degree" and encompasses the study of the laws of finance, damages, contracts, and other financial subjects as defined by the
  Shulkhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law) and in Rabbinic literature
  .

• Hebrew Theological College: Jewish seminary in Skokie
• Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center: Museum in Skokie
• Spertus Institute: Jewish American museum in Chicago

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