Bar-Ilan University's Rena Costa Center is unique in its requirement that master's and doctoral students submit their dissertations in Yiddish.
The Rena Costa Center certifies Yiddish teachers and provides in-service programs to help them enhance and enliven their school curricula.
The Rena Costa Center participates in educating a new generation of Yiddish scholars and pedagogues to teach in communities across the globe.
The Rena Costa Center distributes study guides to a wide range of educational institutions, and has conducted college-level seminars in the Yiddish language in Moscow, Kyiv and Odessa.
It houses, among other things, the personal archives of Emma Schaver, Dina Halpern, Yosef José Maurer, Yitzhak Shmulevitz, Mordechai Halamish, Eliezer Podriatchik, and Rabbi Dr. Heshil Klepfish.