by Sharona Eshet-Kohen
The Alma Center, a new addition to the Jeanie Gluck High School Academy for Girls in Bet El, offers a unique new program for 12th graders.
A new program has opened up for 12th grade students at the Jeanie Gluck High School Academy for Girls in Bet El, via the new Alma Center, with the goal of instilling confidence about subjects that are often at the forefront of young women's minds - womanhood, maturation, marriage, intimacy, family life, and much more.
by Hillel Fendel
Corona has brought together yeshiva students of different Torah outlooks for a positive experience.
Some of the unpleasant scenes in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak this week may have caused us to forget what happened in similar circles the week before, and so a small reminder is in order.
Yeshiva student Corona carriers were given a choice: "Either put yourselves in home quarantine, or check into a 'Corona hotel' with other students of similar status, where you can set up a makeshift yeshiva and continue to study Torah."
The Land Brings It All Together
Baruch Gordon looks at the Torah's language of redemption, which refers to the three-step process of the Exodus, the Torah, and the Land (of Israel).
Unfortunately, many yeshivot have closed this year due to Corona. With immense help from G-d, the Bet El Yeshiva has not canceled even one day of Torah learning!
by Nitzan Kedar, translated and adapted by Hillel Fendel
The following analysis of the prospects and strategies of attaining unity in the national-religious-Zionist camp as we approach the Israeli elections was written several days ago in the Besheva newspaper. This was before Betzalel Smotrich announced that his new "Religious Zionism" party would not be running together with Naftali Bennett's "Yemina" [To the Right"] party. However, it is important to note that Smotrich qualified his remarks by stating that if Bennett "wakes up and returns to himself," the two could run together.
Before every Israeli election – the upcoming one will be the fourth one in the past two years – MK Naftali Bennett, head of the Yemina party, faces the same dilemma. On the one hand, he sees flattering national polls, which he interprets as a call to break out of the "religious Zionist" niche and actively run for Prime Minister – his long-coveted goal.
On the other hand, he sorely remembers the April 2019 elections, when he broke away from the religious-Zionist parties – and proceeded to receive insufficient votes to even get him into the Knesset! (The religious parties received five Knesset mandates.) This, of course, sent him running right back to his national-religious base.
Why Jewish Holidays Are Celebrated Differently In Israel & Diaspora
Baruch Gordon looks at the concept of keeping two days of a holiday outside of the Land of Israel and keeping one day inside the Land of Israel. What is the deeper implication of this distinction and how can we apply the lessons to our lives today?