The yeshiva in the mountains.
Congregation Yeshivas Lubavitch runs a summer yeshiva on a quiet lakeside campus in the Adirondacks.
Who we are.
Congregation Yeshivas Lubavitch is a 501(c)(3) yeshiva based at 60 Campus Drive in Star Lake, NY — about a five-hour drive from Crown Heights and a world away from the city.
Each summer we host Yeshivas Kayitz: a full zman of learning for bochurim who want to spend their summer the way summers were meant to be spent — deep in a sugya, in shul with their chevra, and out under open skies in between.
Where we are.
Star Lake sits in the western Adirondacks — forest, lakes, mountain air, and almost no traffic. Our campus has a beis medrash, dorms, a dining room, a gym, sports fields, and lake access. It was built for exactly what we use it for.
Who it's for.
Yeshivas Kayitz is for bochurim who want a serious summer. The schedule is full. The expectations are real. And the chevra that comes year after year shows up because they want to grow.
Hadracha.
The yeshiva is led by Rabbi Akiva Wagner alongside a faculty of mashpiim and ramim who return summer after summer. The shiurim are demanding, the relationships are real, and the door is always open.
Our purpose.
To give bochurim a place where the summer doesn't have to be a break from yeshiva — where the learning, the davening, and the chevra carry through, and the outdoors are part of it, not in spite of it.