Amudim
City center, Jerusalem · Year after high school
Midreshet Amudim - "So Much More!"
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A gap-year seminary for post-high-school women that stresses rigorous learning, independent study and original research, asking why and how as well as what.
At a glance
- Outlook, in its words
- Modern Orthodox Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- City center, Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Apartments near the midrasha, each with a madricha; breakfast groceries supplied, lunch and dinner catered. 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, Gemara and Rabbinics, Halacha, Methodology, Philosophy/Theology, Art and Literature, Hebrew
- With Israelis
- Optional weekly day studying alongside Israelis at institutions such as Bar-Ilan and Herzog College.
- Who runs it
- Not on their website when we checked. Ask the school.
- Also on their site
- Independent studies and original research
- Optional weekly day studying alongside Israelis
- Need-based scholarships
- 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 website doesn't say. It is on Yeshiva University's list of Israel Program schools. How credit works
Photos and videos
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Midreshet Amudim
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Who is an Amudim Student
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Apartment Life at Amudim
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Where it is
Address on their website: 17 Hillel Street, Jerusalem (Lifshitz College building)
Housing: Apartments in Rechavia
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.
- Zion Square and Ben Yehuda Street300 m · 0.2 mi
- Great Synagogue500 m · 0.3 mi
- Mamilla Mall690 m · 0.4 mi
- Machane Yehuda Market770 m · 0.5 mi
- Sacher Park910 m · 0.6 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport40.3 km · 25.0 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 schedules page says classes regularly take place both on and off campus, and that students get a baseline schedule on arrival that is individualized during the first month.
- Shabbat
- Three kinds of Shabbat: 'In Shabbatot' in Jerusalem with faculty and their families once every 2-3 weeks; Shabbatonim in communities around the country every 3-4 weeks; and 'Out Shabbatot' on alternating weeks, when students stay with friends, relatives, teachers or host families, or host each other. Apartments stay open at all times, including Shabbat and chagim. Many chagim (Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Chanukah, Purim, Yom Ha'atzmaut, Yom Yerushalayim, Shavuot) are spent together.
- Trips
- Tiyulim across Israel, from Eilat to the Golan. An optional Poland trip is run by JRoots and staffed by Amudim faculty; learning continues at the midrasha for students who do not go. Shabbatonim around the country every 3-4 weeks.
- Chesed and volunteering
- Students spend time each week on either an internship or chesed volunteering in Jerusalem. Chesed is with organizations that help vulnerable communities, families in need, children and the elderly. Internship fields listed: medicine, STEM, journalism, archaeology, art, animal care, theater, fashion, nutrition, politics.
- Campus and housing
- Beit midrash and classrooms in a 120-year-old teachers' college building in the city center. Students live in apartments in Rechavia, each with a madricha, WiFi, laundry, a kitchen and shared living space. Three meals a day while in session: groceries for breakfast, catered lunch and dinner.
- Staff named on their site
- Rabbi Uri Goldstein - Rav HaMidrasha, Gemara Ra'M
- Brie Reich - Dean of Students
- Rabbanit Aviva Wapner - Mashgicha Ruchanit
- Rivka Gopin - Director of Operations and Programming
- Gila Fine - faculty
