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Sunday, March 7, 2010 • 21 Adar 5770

Chag Hasemikhah Dinner 09

SPOTLIGHT ON...

Michael Davies
RIETS ’08

Michael DaviesNo one can be fully prepared to be a rabbi, but with the hands-on experience I received in my internships, in both schools and synagogues, I feel more confident in this endeavor. The rebbeim at the Israel Kollel also have been a tremendous inspiration to me in how to combine being a Talmid Chacham and a Baal Midot—which, I think, is what Torah Umadda is really all about.

Michael is Assistant Rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland, CA, and teaches Gemara at Oakland Hebrew Day School. 

TORAH FROM RIETS

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Torah and stained glass

ISRAEL

Eretz Yisrael

RIETS students can spend one of their four years of study at the Gruss Institute kollel in Jerusalem.

CAMPUS

RIETS in Yerushalayim

Yeshiva University’s Israel Campus in Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, includes the Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute of RIETS, programs for Yeshiva University undergraduates, student dormitories, sports facilities, and Yeshiva University Alumni in Israel Offices.

The Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute offers yearlong programs for chaver, semikhah, and post-semikhah students.

BEIT MIDRASH

Beit Midrash in Israel

The new Beit Midrash on our Israel campus is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Israel Miller, Z”L. Rabbi Miller guided the founding of the Bayit Vegan campus and established the Gruss Institute for advanced rabbinical study. He devoted sixty years of his life to the University, first as a student and then as an administrator.

For Rabbi Miller, the Beit Midrash at the Israel Campus personified limud Torah. Every day hundreds of students spend time developing their learning and teaching skills, exploring the vast treasures of Torah, and preparing for lives as professional and lay leaders of the Jewish community.

The learning environment in the Beit Midrash continues to offer a microcosm of the devotion to rabbinic tradition and intellectual diversity emblematic of Yeshiva University.

BEYOND OUR CAMPUS

Beyond the Israel Campus, new technologies are opening virtual windows to talmidim throughout the world enabling them to join in study through webcasts of daily classes that are taught in Jerusalem. The presence of Yeshiva University in Jerusalem infuses Israeli society with the values of Torah Umadda, the University’s guiding philosophy.

And soon, a new venture will extend Yeshiva University’s reach by bringing recent musmakhim to communities throughout Israel as leaders of satellite kollelim. Pilot programs are planned for Ra’anana and Modi’in, cities in which Yeshiva University alumni are well represented.

CONTACT US

Yeshiva University In Israel
40 Duvdevani Street
Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem 96428
Phone: 02-531-3000