Tiferet
Ramat Beit Shemesh · Year after high school
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A women's seminary in Ramat Beit Shemesh that aims for an all-round Israel experience, with a large class selection and students living in apartments within a community.
At a glance
- Size
- Usually up to 75 Shana Alef students and 15 Shana Bet students. Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Outlook, in its words
- Religious Zionist 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
- Ramat Beit Shemesh (Beit Shemesh area) Source: the school's website pages listed under Where this comes from
- Housing
- Students live in apartments. 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.
Learning, cost and credit
- What's taught
- Tanach, Halacha, Hashkafa, Jewish Philosophy, Chaburah sefer study
- Who runs it
- Rabbi Azriel Rosner, Rosh Midrasha and Co-Founder
- Also on their site
- Over 75 classes
- Honors track classes
- Tiyulim at least every two weeks
- Optional 5-day Poland trip
- Old City apartment for Shabbatot
- About 15 Shana Bet students alongside up to 75 Shana Alef
- 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 it is a gold member of Stern College and accredited with Touro and Queens College. It is on Yeshiva University's list of Israel Program schools. 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.
Tiferet Campus Tour 2025-2026
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Where it is
Address on their website: 2 Nachal Shimshon, Ramat Beit Shemesh
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.
- Big Fashion mall, Beit Shemesh4.8 km · 3.0 mi
- Beit Shemesh train station4.9 km · 3.1 mi
- Gush Etzion Junction14.6 km · 9.1 mi
- Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital15.2 km · 9.5 mi
- Efrat15.8 km · 9.8 mi
- Ben Gurion Airport34.0 km · 21.1 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
- Only the 2024-25 calendar is posted on their site, so ask the school for current dates.
- A typical day
- The posted Shana Alef weekly schedule (5785) has Shacharit and chaburot, morning class slots, a long lunch break, afternoon classes, dinner, and evening learning, with optional Vaads and Rakezet groups on some evenings. Each slot has 4-5 class options and students choose all their classes; there are no tests.
- Shabbat
- Students may host guests in their apartments for Shabbat when a bed is free and it is not an 'In-Shabbat'. On every Shabbat and chag students can be set up at teachers' homes for meals. The 2024/25 calendar lists several In Shabbatot, a Shabbaton away, and Rosh Hashana and Shavuot in school.
- Trips
- Tiyulim every 10-14 days (day trips, Shabbatons, three-day overnights). Optional 5-day Poland trip with Tiferet staff, and a 5-day program in Israel for those who do not go.
- Chesed and volunteering
- Chesed opportunities in the local community almost daily, plus the option of doing chesed in Jerusalem one afternoon a week. Organizations named on the site include Shalva, Zichron Menachem, Ezer Mitzion and Adi Negev; students also have 'Chesed families'.
- Campus and housing
- Students live in apartments with a full kitchen and living area; beit midrash; exercise room; student lounge; gardens; roof with a view. Lunch and dinner are catered by Yeshivat Reishit with a salad bar. A doctor or PA visits campus three times a week.
- Rules they publish
- Dress code (in and out of school): skirts below the knee, sleeves past the elbow, nothing low cut or very form fitting. Curfew is 12:30 on weeknights and 1:00 am on Saturday nights.
- After the year
- There is a Shana Bet program (about 15 students). The site says Tiferet is a gold member of Stern College and fully accredited with Touro and Queens College.
- Staff named on their site
- Rabbi Elie Mayer - Mashgiach Ruchani and Co-Founder
- Mrs. Leba Schneider - Dean of Students
- Mrs. Anna Bankier - Director of Academics
- Mrs. Dina Hartstein - Director of Student Life
- Mrs. Leah Nussbacher - Chesed Coordinator
Questions their website answers
- What is Tiferet's Hashkafa?
- Tiferet describes itself as a religious Zionist institution that believes in Torah u'Mada and is guided by the teachings of Rav Soloveitchik and Rav Kook.
- How many students do you have?
- Usually up to 75 Shana Alef students and 15 Shana Bet students.
- What is the Tiferet dress code?
- Skirts below the knee, sleeves past the elbow and nothing low cut or very form fitting, both inside and outside school.
- Does Tiferet have tests or exams?
- No; there are no tests, and the school says it is a gold member of Stern College and accredited with Touro and Queens College.
