Approved Yeshivot December, 2015

Semicha from yeshivot listed below is presently accepted in partial fulfillment of RCA admissions requirements. Institutions below are under regular review, so the list changes periodically. We encourage you to contact us to determine how best to proceed if your (or private masmich) is not listed, or if you are planning a course of study intended to fulfill RCA admissions requirements.

Israel The Chief Rabbinate of Ariel Institute, The Jerusalem , Jerusalem Beit Hamidrash le’Hora’ah “Torat Shlomo”, Jerusalem Shehebar Sephardic Center, Jerusalem The Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary, Kollel Torat Yosef for Diaspora , Efrat Or Chadash (formerly Kollel Nechemas Yerushalayim), Telz-Stone

New York Metropolitan Area Beis Medrash L’ (Lander College for Men), Kew Gardens Hills, NY Beth Medrash Emek Halacha Rabbinical College ( Tuvia Goldstein, zt”l), , NY Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, NJ Bnai Torah, Far Rockaway, NY Machon L’Torah U’l’hora’ah, Brooklyn, NY Tefereth Jerusalem of America, , NY Mesivta Torah Vodaath Seminary, Brooklyn, NY Mirrer Yeshiva, Brooklyn, NY Ohr Somayach Tanenbaum Educational Center, Monsey, NY Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of , New York, NY Rabbinical Academy Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Brooklyn, NY Rabbinical College of America, Morristown, NJ Rabbinical Seminary of America, , NY Sh’or Yoshuv Rabbinical College, Far Rockaway, NY -Lubavitch, Brooklyn, NY Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim, Queens, NY

United States of America (outside of New York metropolitan area) Beth HaMedrash L’Torah (Hebrew Theological College of Skokie), Chicago, IL Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Baltimore, MD Rabbinical College of Telshe, Wickliffe, OH Talmudic Academy of Florida (Rabbi Yochanan Zweig), Miami Beach, FL

Outside of United States of America or Israel Ariel Institute, Pretoria, South Africa Gateshead Talmudical College, Gateshead, England Judith Lady Montefiore College, London, England Rabbinerseminar zu Berlin (Germany) Yeshiva Gedolah (Rabbi Azriel Goldfein), Johannesburg, South Africa Yeshiva Gedolah Mercaz haTorah Tiferet Mordechai, Beit Hamidrash l'Hora'ah, Montreal, Canada