Long Island Herald
By Dena Gershkovich
“Meaningful tears” and enhancing a relationship with God were the focus of keynote speaker Rebbetzin Yael Axelrod’s talk at AMIT’s 19th annual Yom Iyun — “Day of Learning” — for more than 100 Jewish woman — at the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst July 18.
Students at Yeshivat AMIT Nachshon kicked off their summer vacation with a volunteering fair, in which more than 300 teens learned about different ways they can contribute their time and make a difference to Israeli society.
Toward the end of the school year, tenth-grade students at AMIT Kiryat Malachi Jr. and Sr. High School completed a special course that led by engineers at HP (Hewlett Packard). For their final meeting, the students visited HP Israel’s Indigo division in Kiryat Gat, which focuses on digital printing solutions.
Zehava Defrasha,, a student at AMIT Mekif Bet Ashdod, was among the Israeli teens who recently completed a course on cyber protection and information security—and she was recognized as the No. 1 cyber student in the country.
Thirteen students from AMIT Yehuda in Afula became assistants to kashrut supervisors thanks to a special program they participated in and recently completed.
A., a graduate of AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan, recently completed his pilot’s course, which happened to be taught by another alum of the school, Capt. D.
Rabbi Shalom Malool, the head of Yeshivat AMIT Ashdod, said that his heart was “filled with pride and prayer—pride in the first graduating class that will serve as a guidepost for those that follow, and prayer for the success of the graduates in whatever they choose to do.”
Yair Ben Yishai attended Yeshivat AMIT B’Levav Shalem. When he became a full-fledged volunteer for Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency services, he arrived at the home of Maria Schechtman, an elderly Holocaust survivor, who had died alone one night. Then Yair made sure she received a proper burial.
Chananel Vaknin, a 7th grader at the AMIT High School in Maale Adumim, suffers from a rare lung disease. His classmates decided to buy him an electric mobility scooter as part of a school project. The students raised more than NIS 15,000. They used the extra funds to install a special mode so that he could use the scooter on Shabbat.
A group of students from the AMIT Yehuda Jr. and Sr. High School in Afula received the “President’s Award for Volunteerism” in a special ceremony at the President’s Residence. The 11th-graders organized many successful chesed projects over the last three years.
