Baer Miriam
Har Nof, Jerusalem · Year after high school
BAER MIRIAM: Warmth. Growth. Inspiration.
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A seminary that says it aims to build love of Torah, the Land of Israel and the Jewish people, and to give tools for independent learning. It stresses personal attention and a wide choice of elective classes alongside a core curriculum.
At a glance
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Har Nof, Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Air-conditioned, furnished apartments in Har Nof with dairy kitchen and living room. Dorms stay open on Shabbat, holidays and vacations; four house mothers plus counselors. Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Price
- Not published. Ask what's included.
Not on their website when we checked: founding year, class size.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Tanach, Halacha, Jewish Philosophy, Hashkafa, Kabbalah (introductory)
- Who runs it
- Rebbetzin Rochayl Orbach, Director; Mrs. Rita Fuchs, Principal; Rabbi Zvi Herman, Associate Director
- Also on their site
- Chessed program (volunteering with organizations, hospitals, families)
- Tiyulim
- Shabbatonim
- Price
- No price is published on their website. Ask the school, and ask what's included.
- Masa grants
- Their site has an "About Masa" page describing Masa gap-year programs in general; it gives no grant amount. How Masa works
- College credit
- Their website doesn't say. How credit works
Photos and videos
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Why choose Baer Miriam?
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Highlights from the End of the Year - 5783
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Where it is
Address on their website: 42 Ha'Admor MiBoyan Street, Har Nof, Jerusalem
See it on the map
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Nearby
Straight-line distances, to give a sense of the area. Walking and driving routes are longer.
- Mount Herzl2.0 km · 1.2 mi
- Hebrew University, Givat Ram3.1 km · 1.9 mi
- Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital3.1 km · 1.9 mi
- Central Bus Station and Yitzhak Navon train station3.1 km · 1.9 mi
- Israel Museum3.6 km · 2.2 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport36.3 km · 22.6 mi
The area in pictures
These show the neighborhood, not the school itself.
The year in detail
As described on the school's own website. A missing heading means their site didn't say.
- A typical day
- The site says schedules are tailored with each student and are always subject to change. The sample schedule posted runs Sunday to Thursday with morning class blocks (davening and breakfast after the first block), a lunch break, afternoon classes, dinner and evening classes, with two evenings a week marked 'Evening off'.
- Shabbat
- The dorms never close: not on Shabbat, Yom Tov or vacation. Shabbat and chag meals are provided if needed, either at the seminary or with families in the neighborhood, including staff.
- Trips
- Tiyulim around the country, north and south. The site has a Shabbatonim gallery.
- Chesed and volunteering
- A chessed program in which students choose a placement: volunteering in an organization or social service, in a hospital, with disadvantaged youth or disabled children, packing Shabbat food packages, or helping needy families. Mrs. Batya Tarko is listed as Chessed Coordinator.
- Campus and housing
- Dorms are fully furnished apartments in Har Nof, each with a dairy kitchen, living room, full bathrooms and bedrooms; bedrooms and living rooms are air-conditioned and heated. There is a Beit Medrash. Four Em Bayits and a team of madrichot; more than ten staff members live in the neighborhood.
- Staff named on their site
- Rabbi Zvi Herman - Associate Director
- Mrs. Rita Fuchs - Principal
- Rabbi Chaim Weinblatt - Executive Director
- Mrs. Chana Garden - Mashgicha Ruchanit
- Rabbi Sinai Yakobian - Head of Sephardic Studies
