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Staff and students said that the atmosphere of the campus, its central location, and the high quality of teaching, made it a sought-after destination. [1] One of Ulpan Etzion's notable alumni was Israeli satirist Ephraim Kishon. News anchor Haim Yavin taught there. [2] The institution of the ulpan continues to serve immigrants today.
Between 1948 and 1952, about 700,000 immigrants arrived in the new state. The Jewish Agency helped these immigrants acclimate to Israel and begin to build new lives. It established schools to teach them Hebrew, beginning with Ulpan Etzion in 1949. [66] (The first student to register for Ulpan Etzion was Ephraim Kishon. [67]) It also provided ...
Ra'anana (Hebrew: רַעֲנָנָּה, lit."Fresh") is an affluent city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel.It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, c.1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important World War I battle had taken place four years previously.
The initial students came from top universities across North America. [1] In that first year, its faculty included the following rabbis and professors, each teaching one full day each week: Adin Steinsaltz , David Hartman , Eliezer Schweid , Pinchas Hacohen Peli , and Michael Rosenak , with Dov Berkovits [1] and Menachem Froman functioning as ...
Yosef Zvi Rimon (born January 18, 1968) is an Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi, author, lecturer and Posek who serves as rabbi of the Gush Etzion Regional Council and the Ashkenazi Synagogue of Alon Shvut Darom. [1] [2] He is Rosh Yeshiva of the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) and a Rosh Kollel at Yeshivat Har Etzion.
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In 1951 she founded the Ulpan Akiva, a residential language school in Netanya, Israel. It was one of the first three ulpanim in Israel. [ 3 ] She spent nearly 50 years directing the school , where Jews and Arabs were encouraged to get to know each other, speak each other's language, and learn about each other's history and culture. [ 4 ]
In April 2010, several American and Canadian Haredi rabbis from different Jewish sects released a public pronouncement (Kol Kore), asking for pidyon shvuyim on behalf of former kosher meat plant Agriprocessors' top manager Sholom Rubashkin, [8] a Lubavitcher Hasid, awaiting sentencing after being convicted on 86 charges of financial fraud in ...