| • Volume 2, Issue 7 | • Nisan 5770 | • March 2010 |
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YESHIVAT HESDER AKKO HOSTS VIRTUAL GALA
The organizers ask that each visitor to the YBA Virtual Gala's website think of how much they would spend on a dinner out, and donate that amount instead. A variety of shirts and other items were also created by members of the Akko community to be sold in the online storefront with all proceeds going to this very special project. Click here to access the YBA Virtual Gala website |
Yeshivat Hesder "Ruach Tzfonit" continues to write the next chapter in Akko's history, hosting the first ever YBA Virtual Gala – an online fundraiser taking place throughout March to purchase computers for the new Merhavya Community Education Building. The Merhavya Educational Institute has become a major presence throughout Akko's schools and service institutions, serving the needs of Akko's disadvantaged population. 
This foray into the world of online social networking has introduced Yeshivat Akko to new friends from places previously unimaginable. "We've gotten the opportunity to work with artists who support Israel through political demonstrations, students who act as academic ambassadors, Jewish environmental organizations and other Jews who dedicate themselves to improving the world in so many ways," says Sara Paperin, the event's initiator.REGISTRATION TO YBA-NAALE ELITE ACADEMY CONTINUES Registration continues for the YBA-Naale Elite Academy program at two YBA dormitory schools – Yeshivat Ohel Shlomo in Beer Sheva for boys, and Ulpanat Segula in Kiryat Motzkin near Haifa for girls. The program is fully funded by the Ministry of Education, and accepts only 25 students entering 10th grade per school each year.
Click here to hear AFYBA Co-president Daniel Edelman's interview on the WFMU "JM in the AM" radio program, with Nachum Siegel. OZ, I NEED TO EDIT THAT SOUND FILE TO THE EXACT TIMING Click here to visit the program's website and view the videos For more information, or to arrange a meeting for perspective students in your community, please contact Rabbi Yoni Mozeson at 201-928-1819, rabbimozeson@afyba.org |
YESHIVAT HAKOTEL OFFERS FREE PESACH TOUR Yeshivat Hakotel invites all friends of YBA planning to be in Jerusalem for Pesach this year to enjoy a half-day guided tour (in English!) of the Old City. The walking tour will begin at Yeshivat Hakotel at 9:00 am, on Friday, April 2nd, the third day of Chol Hamoed Pesach, and end there as well at 1:00 pm. There is no charge for the tour. The tour guide will be Rabbi Asher Altshul, a Yeshivat Hakotel staff member who is a rabbi, tour guide, and archeologist. The theme of the tour is Bechag Hamatzot and will retrace the steps of the Olei Haregel during the era of the Holy Temple, when the streets of Yerushalayim were filled with visitors from near and far to bring sacrifices and celebrate the holiday. The tour will visit the Southern Wall excavations and will conclude with a breathtaking view of the entire Old City from the roof of Yeshivat Hakotel. There are a limited number of places on the tour, so it is important to register your party as soon as possible, no later than March 24, 2010. To register, please contact Don Kates at: 972-52-830-8393, or don@hakotel.org.il. Click here to register for the Yeshivat Hakotel tour in advance via email. |
DANIELLA STRICK, 20 – FROM CHICAGO TO JERUSALEM, 2009
Daniella Strick is learning how to weld. At 20, she’s the youngest in her class. But that’s a familiar situation for Strick, who is the youngest by far in her family and launched a successful jewelry-making career before she hit her teens. Though she only recently made aliyah officially, Strick has been living here – on her own – since before she was 16. Toward the end her sophomore year at Ida Crown Jewish Academy, Strick opted for a six-week program the school offered at Bnei Akiva Ulpana Amana in Kfar Saba. “I never thought before that I would want to live here,” she said, “but I loved the girls and the school, and I loved Israel. So I asked my parents if I could stay.” Click here to read the entire Jerusalem Post article about Ulpana Amana graduate Daniella Strick by Abigail Klein. |
YBA GRADUATE APPOINTED
YBA congratulates Rabbi Rafi Peretz on his recent appointment as the new Chief Chaplain of the Israel Defense Forces. Rabbi Peretz is a graduate of YBA Netiv Meir in Jerusalem, a veteran combat helicopter pilot in the IAF, and Rosh Yeshiva of the Atzmona Mechina (a one-year program that combines Torah study and spiritual strengthening with mental and physical training prior to induction into the IDF). Rabbi Peretz was noted as a leader of Gush Katif residents who preached Jewish unity and brotherhood throughout the entire painful evacuation of the Gush Katif region.
Click here to read the Jerusalem Post coverage of Rabbi Peretz's appointment. |
MINISTER OF SCIENCE VISITS YBA RAANANA As part of his ministry's efforts to enrich and upgrade the teaching of sciences in Israel's high schools, Minister of Science and Technology, Rabbi Dr. Daniel Hershkowitz, made a site visit to YBA Raanana, accompanied by the mayor of Raanana, Mr. Nahum Hofri. Minister Hershkowitz toured the school's science and technology labs, met with the school's science faculty, and addressed the school's student body at a special assembly. He stressed the importance of combining the study of science and Torah, as it is done in YBA religious Zionist schools.
Rosh Yeshiva Efraim Zik thanked the minister for his interest in developing the school's science program, and pointed out to his students that the minister is a living example of the yeshiva's goal: to combine Torah with Derech Eretz, "Harav Professor Hershkowitz is a true talmid chacham on the one hand and an accomplished scientist on the other, who left the ivory tower of academia to enter politics out of a deep sense of duty to serve Israeli society." Click here to visit the YBA Raanana (Hebrew) website.
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