A Place to Live Torah • A Place to Live Chesed A Place to Live Israel

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At Midreshet AMIT, students spend the day learning, questioning, and growing in Torah. From interesting and challenging classes to guided chavruta study, the year is packed with learning geared to help develop a lifelong connection to Torah and the land of Israel. Through adventurous tiyulim, the students travel the length and breadth of Israel, learning about our history and gaining a greater appreciation for the State of Israel.

Our home is in Beit Hayeled, AMIT’s well-known foster home for disadvantaged youth. Students spend time each day teaching, playing, and caring for some of Israel’s most needy children. As a “big sister,” the student is challenged to give of herself in a way she never experienced before and she is transformed in the process. Here four recent graduates share their impressions of Midreshet AMIT.

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From The School House To The White House

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This past April, eight of AMIT’s most outstanding principals came to the United States for an intellectual exchange of pedagogical thoughts and ideas and to tour a number of innovative and ahead-of-the-curve schools in the New York metro area and Washington, DC.

Led by Mor Deshen, AMIT deputy director of research and development, the AMIT educators wanted to experience first hand the way these schools educate their students. Each school utilized different innovative pedagogical programs.

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The Jewish Guilded Age

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Mention unions and Jews in the same breath, and the first things that usually come to mind are the ILGWU, sweatshops, long hours, low wages, strikes, and Samuel Gompers, the labor union leader. Some cynics will immediately shout, “they’re ruining the country.” Others will maintain that unions are the backbone of the middle class worker, keeping the playing field as level as possible. Still, others will invoke the history of the labor movement and the significant Jewish influence on improvements in the contemporary workplace.

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Rabbi Akiva’s Seder Table: A lesson in Positive Psychology

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While there are several accounts of rabbinic Passover Seder gatherings, the most famous of these is the one recorded in our Haggadah: the Seder of Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar, the son of Azarya, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon. They were reclining at the Seder service in B’nei Brak, and had spent the whole night telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt, until their pupils came and said to them: ‘Our masters, it is time to recite the morning Shema!

This account appears in the Haggadot of Geonim, such as R. Amram Gaon, and the Haggadot of Rishonim, including that of the Rambam (Hilchot Chametz u’Matza Nusach Haggadah), Tosafot, (Ketubot 105a, s.v. de-chashiv) and the Ritva.

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AMIT Launches $10 Million Capital Campaign

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For the past thirty years, AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled and AMIT Kfar Blatt have reflected the very worst and best parts of Israel. Children come to Beit Hayeled escaping from the worst possible circumstances. They leave homes where beatings, sexual abuse, mental cruelty, alcoholism, and neglect are a way of life. To stay is impossible, and children as young as five no longer have a place to call home or anyone to love and help them.

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Tel Aviv The White City

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Behind the facades and hidden in plain sight are the buildings that are the founding structures of Tel Aviv. These seemingly insignificant white houses, factories, hotels, and cinemas are part of one of the 20th century’s most important trends and esthetic styles: Bauhaus. And, Tel Aviv has nearly 2,000 white Bauhaus buildings, the highest concentration anywhere in the world.

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AMIT Orot Hesder Yeshiva Atkfar Batya

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At the AMIT Orot Shaul Hesder Yeshiva in Ra’anana, Rav Yuval Cherlow is teaching the morning Torah class to first year students. As he rounds up his discussion of the prophet Amos, he raises questions related to ethics, Judaism and the modern era. “Is it possible to have a code of ethics for the Internet? How does Judaism deal with such issues? Can one draw up a code of ethics that balances Jewish halacha and the modern world of communications?” The questions are complex and do not always have an easy answer, but they reflect the ethos that is helping to make AMIT Orot Shaul an attractive place of learning for young boys who wish to pursue both in-depth Torah studies and make a contribution to Israeli society.

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Project Based Learning

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This past summer, a distinguished group of AMIT principals, teachers, and administrators attended PBL World in Napa, California. PBL World is the prestigious annual conference presented by the Buck Institute for Education. The conference is devoted exclusively to Project Based Learning (PBL), an innovative approach for teaching and learning in the 21st century.

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