Midreshet Darkaynu
Arnona, Jerusalem · Year after high school
FINAL End of the year darkaynu 2023 2024
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A small, professionally staffed and highly structured year-in-Israel program for young women with special needs, run on the Midreshet Lindenbaum campus alongside its mainstream students.
At a glance
- Program
- Year after high school Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Arnona, Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Renovated dormitory on the Midreshet Lindenbaum campus. 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
- Chumash, Hilchot Kashrut, Shabbat and Moadim, Life skills, Vocational training
- Who runs it
- Elana Goldscheider, Director
- Also on their site
- Chavruta study with Midreshet Lindenbaum students
- Work placements with job coaches
- Life-skills courses
- Adoptive host families
- Chessed
- Price
- No price is published on their website. Ask the school, and ask what's included.
- Masa grants
- Their site says Darkaynu is a partner of Masa Israel. How Masa works
- College credit
- Their website doesn't say. How credit works
Photos and videos
Videos play from YouTube; the channel and year are under each one. We don't copy pictures from the school's website, so their own galleries and social pages are linked instead.
Darkaynu 5782 end of year video!
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Where it is
Address on their website: 51 Leib Yaffe, Arnona, Jerusalem (at Midreshet Lindenbaum)
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.
- The First Station2.5 km · 1.5 mi
- Emek Refaim Street2.6 km · 1.6 mi
- Malcha Mall3.3 km · 2.0 mi
- Israel Museum3.5 km · 2.2 mi
- Great Synagogue3.5 km · 2.2 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport43.1 km · 26.8 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
- Sunday to Thursday: early morning Shacharit and learning; an off-campus work/volunteer program during the day; afternoons chavruta learning and a vocational/life skills course; evenings special activities, visits with adoptive families and recreation. There are weekly educational tours in the greater Jerusalem area.
- Shabbat
- Some Shabbatot are spent with Midreshet Lindenbaum in various places around Israel; on the others students stay with their adoptive families or with family and friends, with staff coordinating the arrangements. Each student visits her adoptive family weekly and spends Shabbat with them about once a month.
- Trips
- Weekly educational tours around greater Jerusalem; Shabbatonim together with Midreshet Lindenbaum around Israel.
- Chesed and volunteering
- A structured volunteer (chessed) program under the motto 'Lilmod U'Laasot', alongside supervised job placements with job coaches.
- Campus and housing
- Housed at Midreshet Lindenbaum, all under one roof: central Beit Midrash, renovated dormitory, classrooms, dining facilities, garden patio, exercise room and laundry room.
- Staff named on their site
- Elana Goldscheider - Director
