AMIT Acts of Chesed Make Passover Sweeter
As the nation locked down even more vigorously during the Passover holiday, AMIT teachers and students did many acts of chesed to help vulnerable people celebrate the holiday.
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‘Armchair Traveler’ with AMIT Alum Ilan Rogers
We may not be able to hop a plane and travel right now, but we can take an “armchair” trip with AMIT alum Ilan Rogers, who traveled to 52 countries in 52 weeks. Rogers took more than 100,000 photographs documenting his adventure. Check out the gallery of locales he visited.
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Home to Fifty-Two Children
Entering the doors of the modest building of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, one immediately feels as if he entered into a parallel little world with its own sense of time, language, energy, and its own set of rules.
Everything about this residential home for Israel’s at-risk youth is designed to offer a familial therapeutic setting, in order to encourage children who have suffered greatly a chance to heal.
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AMIT Student Ambassador Shares Thoughts on Eve of Passover
AMIT student ambassador Roni Ashkenazi, currently doing her national service Carmel 6000 (but at home), reflects on what it’s like to be living through the health crisis in Israel.
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AMIT Student Springs into Chesed Action to Help Others
In classic AMIT-style, Yeshivat AMIT Ashdod 9th grader Dannel M. turned the health “crisis into an opportunity,” corralling students and friends into a nationwide chesed effort to help quarantined seniors and others.
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Beit Hayeled Awarded Jerusalem Prize for Education
AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled was recently honored for its decades-long work with some of Israel’s most vulnerable children: The surrogate-family home was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for education at the 17th Jerusalem Conference.
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Our First AMIT Haggadah
When we sit down at the Seder this year and recite the Ma Nishtana, Why is this night different from all others? – it won’t be because of the matzah, or the bitter herbs, the dipping, or the reclining. In fact, those rituals will likely be familiar and comforting. What will be different this year is who will be there. For many, our moms, dads, children, grandchildren, favorite great-aunts, and once-a-year Seder friends won’t be there with us – painful medicine in the war against COVID-19.
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Teaching in the Time of Corona
How are members of the AMIT family coping with Corona Virus? Find out Pesha Fischer’s take on Teaching in the Time of Corona.
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AMIT Student Entrepreneurs Get ProTips for Their Startup Ideas
Students at AMIT’s Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently worked to develop a marketing plan for their startup ideas with an expert in the field — Shimrit Nisenbaum, the spokesperson and public relations manager for Neopharm, who has more that 20 years of marketing and PR experience.
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Midreshet AMIT Doesn’t Miss a Beat Teaching Students
When the students at Midreshet AMIT had to leave abruptly weeks before their Passover break due to growing concern over coronavirus, what did the seminary do?
The faculty decided to teach their classes via Zoom on a U.S. schedule to make sure that the learning was uninterrupted and that students wouldn’t miss a beat.
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