"For the first three nights I didn't sleep. I waited for someone to come yell at me. By night four, I cried because no one did.Shira B.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2017 · Social worker, Beit Shemesh
- Jerusalem · Since 1949 · A Family of Four ProgramsA home,
A home,
not a shelter.
Bayit Lepleitot began with one rabbi opening his door to twenty-four girls who had nowhere to go. Seventy-five years and three generations later, the door has never closed - and now there are eight hundred of them.
- Seventy-five years
Counted three ways.
24
Holocaust survivors taken in by Rabbi Rosenfeld and his wife in 1949.
800+
Children today across four sister programs - Bayit Lepleitot, Nivcheret, Bishvilech, Beyachad.
3
Generations of leadership. Rabbi Naftali's grandson now runs the home his grandfather started.
- The Story Behind the HomeHe had lost everything.
He had lost everything.
So he built a place no one else would have to.
Rabbi Naftali Rosenfeld was a Holocaust survivor who had lost his wife and four daughters to the Shoah. By 1949 he was rebuilding a life in Jerusalem - and he could not stop noticing the girls. Girls who had survived. Girls with nowhere to go.
He and his second wife opened their home to twenty-four of them. There was no plan, no funding, no committee. There was a door, and there were girls who needed it open.
“Every girl who arrives at Bayit Lepleitot will know that, here, she has found a home.”Read the full 75-year story →
- One family
Four ways the home reaches further.
Each program is its own door, opened for a different child. Together they hold eight hundred of them.
Since 1949 · The Flagship
Bayit Lepleitot
Girls from broken or abusive homes - ages 12 to 22. Full residential.
Girls today300+
Since 2020 · Newest residential
Nivcheret
Orphaned girls, age 5 and up. The youngest of the homes.
Girls today200
Since 2022 · Day program
Bishvilech
Girls from divorced families. After-school + weekly support.
Girls today300
Since 2022 · For boys
Beyachad
Boys from divorced families. Our newest sister program.
Boys today300
- Voices from the home
The story, in the words of the girls who lived it.
Three out of more than four hundred women who graduated from a Bayit Lepleitot program. Names have been used by permission.
"I learned how to set a table. That sounds small. But for me - it was the first time anyone showed me how a normal evening looked.Esti M.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2019 · Teacher, Modi'in Illit
"On my first birthday there, they had a cake. I was eight. It was the first cake of my life with my name on it.Sara B.Bayit Lepleitot · Graduated 2011 · Mother of four
- Become family
Become part of a 75-year-old home - every month.
The work of Bayit Lepleitot is steady, daily, and unspectacular. Meals. Homework. Bedtimes. Birthdays. It needs steady, daily, unspectacular funding - which is to say, monthly.
Your gift goes wherever the home needs it most. You'll hear from us once a quarter.
All donations are tax-deductible in the US (501(c)(3), EIN pending). Currency auto-detected.
Monthly · Family
One-Time
Whatever you give each month, we will tell you exactly what it does here - and there is no amount too small.
Become Family →- Trusted since 1949
Read their letters
Three generations have trusted us with their daughters.
The leading rabbanim of the generation have known Bayit Lepleitot from up close, and stand behind it. That is the only endorsement we have ever sought.
Among them: the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, the Badatz of the Eida Hachareidis with Maran HaRav Elyashiv ztz"l, the Badatz of Belz, and Hadassah Hospital.
- From the home
All updates →News & moments - fresh from Jerusalem.
- Event · Mar 2026
Purim came twice this year - and Nivcheret made room for both.
5 min read · Devorah Frankel
- Milestone · Feb 2026
Seventeen new social workers - all graduates of the home.
4 min read · Staff
- Update · Jan 2026
Bishvilech opens a third location in the south.
3 min read · Rabbi Rosenfeld
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Once a quarter, one letter. Stories from the girls, updates from Jerusalem, an honest look at what's working and what's hard.
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