Midreshet AMIT
Gilo, Jerusalem · Year after high school
A Day in the Life of a Midreshet AMIT Student
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A program built around three ideas, living Torah, living chesed and living Israel, based at Beit Hayeled, AMIT's foster home, where students act as big sisters to the children.
At a glance
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Gilo, Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Students live at Beit Hayeled alongside Israeli couples and Sherut Leumi volunteers. 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: class size.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Torah classes, Guided chavruta study
- Who runs it
- Mrs. Ilana Gottlieb, Dean; Rabbi Daniel Goldstein, Rav Midrasha
- Also on their site
- Daily chesed with children at Beit Hayeled
- Tiyulim around Israel
- Price
- No price is published on their website. Ask the school, and ask what's included.
- Masa grants
- Their website doesn't say. Most year programs are registered with Masa, so ask. How Masa works
- College credit
- Their site says the Midreshet AMIT transcript is the official academic record, whether or not a given college accepts the credits. It is on Yeshiva University's list of Israel Program schools. How credit works
Photos and videos
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Who is a Midreshet AMIT Girl?
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Take a campus tour with Shosh and Shiran
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Where it is
Address on their website: Beit Hayeled, 9 HaShayish Street, Gilo, 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.
- Malcha Mall2.5 km · 1.6 mi
- Israel Museum4.8 km · 3.0 mi
- Hebrew University, Givat Ram4.8 km · 3.0 mi
- Mount Herzl4.9 km · 3.0 mi
- The First Station5.0 km · 3.1 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport42.4 km · 26.3 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.
- Language
- Ulpan is offered at intermediate and advanced levels and students use Hebrew daily with the children at Beit Hayeled
- A typical day
- Morning seder (classes and Beit Medrash time), a long lunch break, afternoon seder (three classes, mincha and chesed hours with the children), then night seder; one night a week is off. One morning a week is spent on chesed around Jerusalem, followed by Shiur Klali, electives (megamot) and night seder.
- Shabbat
- School Shabbatonim in communities around Israel, plus official 'In Shabbatot' with the Beit Hayeled families. When there is no school Shabbaton the dorm stays open with a madricha, and staff help place students with hosts. The building is closed for Rosh Hashana and the Yom Tov days of Succot and Pesach (open on chol hamoed). Hotels or empty apartments require emailed parental permission.
- Trips
- Tiyulim around Israel and Shabbatonim in communities around the country; an overnight winter tiyul; visits to other AMIT network schools. The 'Trips and Shabbatonim' detail page says 'Coming shortly'.
- Chesed and volunteering
- The seminary is housed in Beit Hayeled, AMIT's foster home for disadvantaged children. Each student joins a 'mishpachton' (a couple and 12 children), helps with homework twice a week, acts as a 'big sister' and runs after-school clubs. One morning a week is spent volunteering around Jerusalem (hospitals, soup kitchens, the elderly, people with disabilities).
- Campus and housing
- Beit Medrash and dorm inside the Beit Hayeled building; the site mentions shopping malls nearby.
- Rules they publish
- Phones are not permitted in the Beit Midrash or during class. Dress code is mandatory in and out of the building, including Shabbatot: skirts cover the knee when sitting, sleeves to the elbow, necklines to the collarbone, midriff covered, nothing tight, no body piercings and at most 2 earrings per ear. Attendance is required at classes and programs; trips outside Israel during the school term are not supported.
- After the year
- Alumnae page has reunion news and mentions AFLI (AMIT Future Leaders Initiative) for college and post-college students.
- Staff named on their site
- Rabbi Daniel Goldstein - Rav Midrasha
- Mrs. Yonit Mhazri - Director
- Mrs. Bina Golding - Coordinator of Student Life
- Mrs. Pesha Fischer - Coordinator of Educational Programming
- Rav Amos Azizoff - Mashgiach Ruchani
Questions their website answers
- How do I decide which classes to take?
- The administration guides each student during registration toward courses and levels that suit her.
- My learning skills aren't that strong. Will I be ok?
- Each time slot offers a choice of classes for different levels and backgrounds, with guidance and support.
- Will I have the opportunity to learn Hebrew?
- Ulpan is offered at intermediate and advanced levels, and students speak Hebrew daily with the children at Beit Hayeled.
- Will I have any opportunities for chavruta?
- Yes, students can always learn a topic of their choice with a chavruta while staff circulate to help.
