AMIT Students Hit the Airwaves
A select group of AMIT Network eleventh graders from across the country – from Yerucham in the South to Or Akiva in the North – toured the Army Radio studios in Jaffa this week.
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Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro Visits Gogya
The Ambassador of the United States of America to the State of Israel Daniel B. Shapiro visited the Gogya center at AMIT Kfar Batya, Raanana, yesterday.
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AMIT Sderot Yeshiva Students Win National Robotics Competition
Congratulations to our students in Sderot! The team from AMIT Sderot Yeshiva track won first place at the YTEK National Mathematics, Aerospace and Robotics Olympiad that took place in mid May at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
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AMIT Hatzor Students Mark Memorial Day
On Tuesday, the morning of Memorial Day Eve in Israel, AMIT Hatzor HaGlilit students walked the entire day and covered 22 kilometers on the Israel Trail, walking from the Arbel Cliffs to the home of Oron Shaul’s family.
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Passover Chesed at AMIT Hammer Rehovot
Over the past few weeks students at AMIT Hammer High School for Boys in Rehovot raised over 10,000 shekels in order to buy Passover food staples for needy families.
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AMIT Sderot Student to be Honored on Independence Day
Hallel Barelli, a 17 year old resident of Sderot and student at Ulpanat AMIT Shirat Sderot, was chosen to light a torch on Israeli Independence Day.
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AMIT Ramle: Dream Big
It is hard not to come away from a visit to AMIT Ramle Technological High School without a sense of tremendous admiration for the educational work being carried out there. Reflecting the city’s mixed ethnic and low socioeconomic background, the student population consists entirely of young people with multiple needs – emotional, psychological, financial and physical. “We do not accept good students,” affirms principal Yizhar Afgan, “we only accept students with special needs or difficulties.”
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Je Suis AMIT
When Joseline Rotstein, a new immigrant from France, was contemplating her family’s move to Israel, her top priority was finding a community where her teens would flourish.
“We decided to move to Ra’anana because of the good schools,” Rotstein said, referring to the quiet suburb of Tel Aviv her family has called home for almost a year. “Everyone said AMIT Renanim Junior and Senior Science and Technology High School for Girls was the place for new immigrants, so that’s where I enrolled my daughter Yona.”
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U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon Speaks To AMIT
Danny Danon was a Member of the Knesset from February 2009 until August 2015. He served as Deputy Speaker of the 18th Knesset, as Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, and numerous other committees. Read his interview here.
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A Matter Of When, Not If
About a year ago, I observed the model lesson of a prospective middle school Gemara teacher at the school I lead, Westchester Day School. Being the week before Pesach, the teacher naturally focused the lesson on the chag. He began with the quote from Parshat Bo (13:14) that is the basis for the simple son’s question at the Seder: “Vihaya ki yishalcha bincha machar leimor ma zot…(And when your son asks you tomorrow what is this all about…)..” The context in the Torah of the simple son’s question is the mitzvah of Pidion Bechorim (redeeming the firstborn). His question, basically, seeks the reason for this mitzvah, and the answer given is that it is because the firstborn Jewish males were spared in the plague of Makat Bechorim (Ibn Ezra, among others).
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