From Kibbutz Life to a Torah Way of Life
In addition to academic excellence, one of the central pillars of AMIT’s educational vision is Torat Chaim, the goal of which is to inculcate in students the values of Torah as a way of life.
Isaiah’s Expanding Tent: Secular Israeli Schools Join the AMIT Network
It is shortly before eight o’clock on a Sunday morning in Rehovot, and most of the Ron Arad High School’s 735 seventh- to twelfth-graders are streaming into class — all but those currently quarantined for COVID-19.
Purim of giving in AMIT Hillel Rehovot
11th-grade students at AMIT Hillel High School in Rehovot volunteered and gave out with real joy. The students prepared and produced a Purim happening for the children of the Sharet neighborhood in the city of Lod, which included play stations, art workshops and food stalls.
Purim in a salute to teachers and school staff AMIT Beer Tuvia
Reading the Purim celebrations at the Amit Beer Tuvia school, the school administration in collaboration with the teachers’ committee decided to salute the entire staff of the high school and organized a happy and enriching Purim party, especially for them, when the whole party was based on the staff’s talents.
AMIT Renanim students make the patients in Meir happy
The excited children were very happy, the parents were excited and also the nursing staff joined in with applause and great joy. It was a special and exciting experience, especially after a long period of Corona, where outsiders who were not close relatives could not be admitted to the wards.
Purim joy of connections and kindness in the real Acre
After a two-year period of living in the shadow of the Corona, at the Amit Kennedy Acre School in Acre, they chose to celebrate the Purim events as a sign of connection and love for the people. On Rosh Chodesh Adar, the students set out on the boys’ path, led by social education coordinator Ira Lahiani.
Ukraine: Two Claims on Our Humanity
This past week has laid bare in stark, visceral terms, the worst face of mankind. As Jews, while we don’t forget history, we spend more time working to improve the present and future. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, Rabbi of Kehilath Jeshurun, aptly describes those two claims on our humanity in the context of the crisis in the Ukraine, below. It helped me frame and assimilate this tragedy. I hope it does the same for you.
The Principal and The Bagrut
Every once in a while I use this column to describe someone at AMIT who truly inspires me. Today, that person is Nedavya Naeh, principal at AMIT Florin Taman High School for Boys in Tzfat. Nedavya grew up on a moshav in the Golan; his mother was a Moroccan immigrant, and his father was a farmer. School was difficult for him ‒ with the benefit of hindsight, he now recognizes he was dyslexic. He spent a lot of time outdoors with cattle and crops. For his bar mitzvah, Nedavya said the brachot and his twin brother recited the full parashah.
What I’m thinking about today
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember Holocaust survivor Grzegorz Pawlowski. My husband will tell you that I cannot talk about this story without crying.
Dedication of a Sefer Torah to the AMIT Religious High School
Please join us in thanking the Friedman family, including AMIT’s very own Limor Friedman, for dedicating a Sefer Torah to the AMIT religious high school in Sderot.