Midreshet Tehillah
Har Nof (Neve Yerushalayim campus), Jerusalem · Year after high school
Midreshet Tehillah Campus Life 2021/2
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A learning-based seminary, open since 2003, that stresses intellectual challenge and personal exploration. It reports about 60 students in Shana Alef and 15 in Shana Bet, from yeshiva high schools and out-of-town Bais Yaakovs, with some baalot teshuva and NCSY students.
At a glance
- Size
- An average of 60 students in Shana Alef and 15 in Shana Bet Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Outlook, in its words
- Students "share a strong commitment to Halacha and growth" Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Program
- Year after high school; a second year (Shana Bet) is offered Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Location
- Har Nof (Neve Yerushalayim campus), Jerusalem Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Its own dormitory building on the Neve campus, split into apartments of four or six bedrooms with kitchen and showers; three students per bedroom. Open during all vacations. Full meals in the dining hall. Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Price
- Not published. Ask what's included.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Machshevet Yisrael, Text-centered classes, Tehillah Track (classroom discussion), Beit Midrash Track (chavruta-based), Personal religious growth
- Who runs it
- Rabbi Jeremy Kagan, Mrs. Susan Kagan and Mrs. Michal Levy, Directors
- Also on their site
- Tehillah Track
- Beit Midrash Track
- Shana Bet program
- Poland trip
- Chesed activities
- Monthly Shabbatonim
- 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
- Shana Bet students may add secular coursework toward a degree, or earn a bachelor's degree through colleges that award degrees for coursework done in Israel. Their site says graduates usually go on to Stern, Touro or other colleges. It is on Yeshiva University's list of Israel Program schools. How credit works
Photos and videos
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Midreshet Tehillah Campus Tour Video 2023
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Midreshet Tehillah Dorm Tour Video 2023
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Where it is
Address on their website: 1 Beit Yitzchak Street, Har Nof, Jerusalem (Neve Yerushalayim campus)
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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
- Central Bus Station and Yitzhak Navon train station2.6 km · 1.6 mi
- Hebrew University, Givat Ram2.8 km · 1.7 mi
- Sacher Park3.2 km · 2.0 mi
- Israel Museum3.3 km · 2.0 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport36.6 km · 22.7 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.
- Dates
- 2026-27: dorms open and group flight arrives Monday August 31, 2026; orientation September 1-4; second semester begins January 11, 2027; banquet June 8, 2027; dorm closes June 14, 2027 at 10am.
- A typical day
- The handbook says meals are served Sunday through Thursday and one afternoon a week is set aside for chesed. The calendar lists breaks at Sukkot, Chanukah, midwinter and Pesach.
- Shabbat
- About once a month there is a mandatory school Shabbaton, on campus or elsewhere in Israel. There are also optional "Staff Shabbat" weekends on campus. On all other Shabbatot the dorm is open and supervised, and students arrange meals with family, friends or staff, with help from the school. The dorm stays open during all vacations.
- Trips
- Two overnight trips (one in the south, one in the north), about seven one-day tiyulim and several half-day ones. An optional Poland trip costs extra (last year $1,650) and not every student is approved to go.
- Chesed and volunteering
- One afternoon a week is designated for chesed: helping Har Nof families, tutoring children, WIZO day care, Shalva, Gan Harmony, visiting the elderly ("Adopt a Bubby"), a clothing gemach, packing food for families, Zichron Menachem and medical clowning in hospitals. Mrs. Rena Gershenfeld coordinates placements.
- Campus and housing
- On the Neve Yerushalayim campus. Dorm building divided into apartments of 4-6 bedrooms (three students per bedroom) with kitchen, refrigerator and freezer. Dining hall with three meals Sunday-Thursday, washers and dryers on campus (small fee), music room with piano, art room, organic garden, campus safe for valuables.
- Rules they publish
- Dress code: elbows, neckline and knees covered, no slits above the knee, nothing tight, closed-toe shoes, in and out of school. Students must have a working cell phone with WhatsApp; smartphones are allowed, with some restrictions on where phones can be during school hours. Laptops and tablets are allowed. Music played out loud in the dorm must be Jewish music.
- After the year
- A Shana Bet (second year) program with its own courses; students can study Torah only, combine it with college coursework, or earn a bachelor's degree through colleges that grant degrees for work done in Israel. The site says American graduates typically go on to Stern College, Touro College or other universities.
- Staff named on their site
- Mrs. Susan Kagan - Director
- Mrs. Michal Levy - Director
- Mrs. Rena Gershenfeld - Morning Eim Bayit; Rakezet
- Mrs. Tammy Goldschneider - Evening Em Habayit
- Dayan Shlomo Cohen - teaches Contemporary Halacha Topics
