AMIT Stories

GeneneKaye

A Special Lady

I recently met with a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. She told me that she survived the war with forged Polish papers which allowed her to flee from Poland to Austria and then Germany, where she worked at various factories and farms.

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Tzfat

AMIT Students from Tzfat Represent Israel at a Memorial in Salonika

Twenty two students from the AMIT Tzfat Evelyn Schreiber Jr. & Sr. Ulpana High School represented the State of Israel and the city of Tzfat in a “march of the living” in memory of the city’s inhabitants who perished in the Holocaust and to mark the 74th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Salonika (Thessaloniki) to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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teachers

Is there a Doctor in the Class?

In the teachers’ room of AMIT Atidim in Or Akiva, you will find something very unique – 15 teachers who left their previous high-ranking and lucrative professions in order to educate the next generation.

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JerusalemMarathon

Huge Win for Team AMIT at Jerusalem Marathon!

With tremendous enthusiasm, energy and in high spirits nearly 300 AMIT students, teachers, principals, staff, and supporters joined together at Friday’s Jerusalem Marathon in support of AMIT’s Frisch Beit Hayeled, a foster home which serves 120 children ages 4-14 who need a warm and loving safe refuge.

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TJPMarathon

The Jerusalem Post: Running for Daniella

In January of last year, Daniella Moffson, a 21-year-old Manhattan native and Barnard College student who spent her high-school gap-year in 2013 volunteering at a Jerusalem shelter for severely neglected children, died as she lived: giving.

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FullCircle

It All Comes Full Circle

While visiting AMIT Kfar Blatt Youth Village and AMIT Petach Tikvah Pre-Army Junior College, I met Moshe Uziel, who as a child lived in the youth village with his sister because their mother could not care for them properly.

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TwoStudents

2 Teenagers, 2 Towns

Today I met Yonatan and Amir at two different AMIT programs. While each young man has his own unique story, both shared similar challenges in school.

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A Lesson in Humanity

Last week, an elderly Holocaust survivor was found dead in her apartment in Yerucham. Maria Schechtman was the sole survivor from her family and lived on her own for many years in Yerucham.

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