Learning Mesillat Yesharim in Memory of a Fallen Soldier
The students of Talmud Torah Netzach Yisrael in Beit Shemesh have launched a meaningful learning project in memory of a fallen soldier from Jerusalem that they never met. Students at the Netzach Yisrael boys’ elementary school in Beit Shemesh have recorded a song based on the opening verse of the book “Mesillat Yesharim” that they […]
Inclusivity in the Classroom
By Chani Gergel, Principal of the Netzach Yisrael Beit Yaakov Elementary School in Beit Shemesh. One of the many challenges we face in education today is teaching children about people who look or behave differently from them. Children’s natural curiosity often leads them to react in ways that may appear insensitive: staring at someone in […]
Chayei Olam – Preparing for Life’s Challenges
Many of us moved to Israel in the hope that we would find amazing religious yeshiva high schools – like the ones we had “back home” – and we were disappointed that Israel was not New Jersey! We wrung our hands with despair, but very few of us did anything about it. Except for a […]
Leading the Growth of MaMaCh Education
Netzach’s flagship girls’ high school in Jerusalem, Darkei Sarah, was one of the schools selected for a tour by the Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Education, Meir Shimoni. At the start of the school year, he came to familiarize himself with the expanding sector of state-affiliated Charedi schools. The Director General met with Netzach […]
Netzach Jerusalem Students Design Winning Robots
Robots created by students at Netzach’s “Torat Chesed” school in Jerusalem won two trophies in a national schools’ robotics competition. The robotics team from the Torat Chesed elementary school in Givat Ze’ev participated in the annual MasterBit competition as part of the international First schools’ robotics program, organized together with the BabaDa Charedi STEM science […]
B’Deracheha Youth Movement awarded Ben-Gurion Prize
Netzach’s B’Deracheha youth movement for Charedi girls in Jerusalem has received a NIS 50,000 prize for its social volunteer work, community involvement and leadership development. B’Deracheha is a new youth movement for 11-13 year-old Charedi school girls in Jerusalem, and run by counselors from the Netzach Darkei-Sara High School. It is part of the Netzach […]
Haredim don scrubs, smashing medical glass ceilings
Jerusalem College of Technology & Netzach’s Medical Mechina program helps aspiring Haredi medical professionals pursue a career path that few of their peers have attempted before, while simultaneously maintaining their religious identity and lifestyle.
“?What Did You Do During the War”
Our children are not immune to the crisis atmosphere that has pervaded Israel since the Hamas attack on October 7, and many of them want to help Israel’s war effort. Staff at the Netzach elementary and high schools have been working hard to help their students deal with a wide range of emotions during this […]
A Time For Question Marks
by Michael Nachtiler, CEO of the Netzach Educational Network, Cheshvan 5784, October 2023 The events of Simchat Torah, 5784, do not call for conventional soul-seeking. Above all, they call us to convert our exclamation marks to question marks. Simchat Torah morning. Stepping out of the house, worrying about how much candy the kids might consume, […]
Fanning the Inner Flame
Mrs. Sarah Gordon, Principal of the new Seminar Shalhevet girls’ high school in Ramat Beit Shemesh, wrote this article for her local magazine “Connections”, sharing her educational philosophy with parents at the start of the new school year. Picture this: With a bang the door is thrown open. Shoshanah bounds into the house, full of […]