It is a little embarrassing but nevertheless true: My mother is the President of AMIT and until last week I did not fully appreciate what that meant. From May 7-11, I was on the 2023 Groundbreakers’ Mission. Luckily for me, over the four days AMIT was on full display, with a clarity I couldn’t have predicted.
Every once in a while, I’ll come across a story that makes me proud to be a Jew. This one makes me exceptionally proud to be both a Jew and a member of the AMIT family.
A core value of AMIT is “Klal Yisroel.” We are a big tent where all members of Israeli society regardless of background, religion, and ideologic perspective, are valued and integrated into our network.
As AMIT’s president, I had the opportunity to attend the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (COP) mission to the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel.
But in 2022, AMIT continued to work 24/7, 365 days to educate and support our children.
AMIT has received recognition in the press lately for the educational innovations we are making in Israel to propel our students for success both tomorrow and for many years to come.
It was a great school year! Wow, this was a great year! School in Israel ended this week, and with a full year of in-person classes under our belt, I’d like to share what I am especially proud of at AMIT. I covered most of this and more in my recent Annual Assembly presentation. Excellent…
This week, I want to focus on one of AMIT’s smaller but extremely impactful programs, that successfully combines our “break the glass ceiling” philosophy with AMIT’s values-based educational approach. The school is the AMIT Tiferet Gur Arye Pre-Military Technology Junior College located in Rechovot. It is one of six pre-military junior colleges run by AMIT in partnership with the IDF.
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.
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.
