Midreshet Moriah
Baka / Emek Refa'im, Jerusalem · Year after high school
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A seminary where each student builds her own schedule from a large course catalog (their site cites over 150 courses).
At a glance
- Outlook, in its words
- Dati Leumi (Religious Zionist), guided by the outlook of Rav Soloveitchik and Rav Kook 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
- Baka / Emek Refa'im, Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Apartments with three rooms, usually two students per room, each with a kitchenette, refrigerator and bathrooms. 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, Musar, Halacha, Jewish Philosophy, Gemara
- Who runs it
- Mrs. Bracha Krohn, Menahelet; Rabbi Eitan Mayer, Menahel
- Also on their site
- Build-your-own schedule
- Volunteering at organizations around Jerusalem
- 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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Let us show you the beautiful Midreshet Moriah Residence!
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Tour Midmo's Beit Midrash and Classrooms!
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Where it is
Address on their website: 1 Azaryah Street, Jerusalem
Housing: A residence in Baka
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.
- Emek Refaim Street750 m · 0.5 mi
- The First Station760 m · 0.5 mi
- Great Synagogue1.6 km · 1.0 mi
- Mamilla Mall1.8 km · 1.1 mi
- Israel Museum1.8 km · 1.1 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport41.7 km · 25.9 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: Shacharit in the beit midrash, hour-long class slots through the morning, a lunch break, afternoon slots and evening slots. Students build their own schedule; the only required course is Hilchot Shabbat. One night a week is off.
- Shabbat
- About once a month there is a mandatory school Shabbaton, on campus or in a community elsewhere in Israel. On other Shabbatot students may go to family or friends or stay in the residence, where a madrichah stays with them; teachers also host. The residence is open on Chol HaMoed Sukkot and Pesach; Shavuot is spent together at the school.
- Trips
- A trip or special event about every other week, with half-day and full-day tiyulim and two extended trips of two to five days in the north and the south. The site also refers to a Poland tour.
- Chesed and volunteering
- Volunteer program with placements at Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center and Hadassah Hospital, One Family Fund, WIZO, Darkaynu, ALEH, Shalva and the Ethiopian National Project, arranged by a volunteer coordinator, plus group chesed events during the year.
- Campus and housing
- Beit midrash, classrooms, offices and dining room in one building. Students live in apartments with 3 bedrooms (usually two students per room), two bathrooms, kitchenette with refrigerator and microwave, heating and air conditioning. Washers and dryers in the building; two student computers with internet.
- Rules they publish
- Curfew: back in the dorm by 12:00 AM on weekdays and 12:30 AM on Thursday and Saturday nights. Dress code: necklines close to the collarbone, sleeves covering elbows and at least 3/4 length, skirts well below the knee with no slits above the knee.
- After the year
- The site shows Touro University (Israel option) and Yeshiva University's S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program as partners. Alumnae are offered a winter-break learning program each January and shiurim and reunions in the USA and UK.
- Staff named on their site
- Mrs. Bracha Krohn - Menahelet
- Rabbi Eitan Mayer - Menahel
- Mrs. Roni Goldscheider - Eim Bayit
- Mrs. Vicky Berglas - Director Emeritus
- Rabbi Uri Cohen - teaches Halachah and Jewish Thought; librarian
Questions their website answers
- Where do Midreshet Moriah students come from?
- About 70% come from the New York/New Jersey area and about 30% from elsewhere, including cities across the US, Canada and England.
- How often do you have Shabbatonim? What if I don't have places to go for Shabbat?
- School Shabbatonim are about once a month, and on other weeks a madrichah stays in the residence with students who want to stay, or teachers host them.
- Are there any classes I have to take?
- The only required class is Hilchot Shabbat, offered as either a practical or a source-based shiur.
- How many meals are served each day?
- Three meals are served on days when classes are in session, except one night a week, and cooking facilities are available.
