Nishmat in the News

What Happened to Yeshiva University, er… American Jewry?

What Happened to Yeshiva University, er… American Jewry?

Look to Israel By Michael Eisenberg Tablet Magazine  http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/225037/what-happened-to-yeshiva-university-er-american-jewry​ The recent appointment of Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman as President of Yeshiva University (YU) serves as an opportunity to reflect on the state of Modern or Centrist Orthodoxy in America. Personally, I think he is an excellent choice for the role. (Full disclosure: Rabbi Berman is a friend; we studied… read more

Nechama Price, 36 Revolutionizing Women’s Torah Learning

Nechama Price, 36 Revolutionizing Women’s Torah Learning

Nechama Price never learned Talmud until her post-high school gap year studying in Israel. Her all-girls high school simply didn’t offer it as an option. “It was something that was so important to me, that I be able to learn on a serious level, because that’s how I felt a connection,” she said. “When I… read more

Nishmat student, Allison Alt featured in the Jerusalem Post Aliyah Stories

Nishmat student, Allison Alt featured in the Jerusalem Post Aliyah Stories

Aliyah Stories: Embracing the Challenge   Published in The Jerusalem Post BY ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN MARCH 2, 2017  When Alison Alt learned in a New Jersey high school classroom that many Babylonian Jews failed to follow the prophets Ezra and Nehemiah back to the Promised Land because of their complacency in exile, she wondered how today’s Diaspora… read more

Rachel Eckstein Savors Living Like a Local

Rachel Eckstein Savors Living Like a Local

Original Article: http://www.jewishlinknj.com/world-us/16668-rachel-eckstein-savors-living-like-a-local Rachel Eckstein is studying at The Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Studies for Women (Nishmat) in the Pat neighborhood of Jerusalem. She is originally from Passaic, NJ and attended Bruriah for high school. Her plans for next year? Making aliyah in the summer and serving her country for a year or… read more

Shana Adler Builds Strong Connections at Nishmat

Shana Adler Builds Strong Connections at Nishmat

This week’s JLNJ Spotlight Israel features Shana Adler. Shana is studying at The Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Studies for Women (Nishmat) in the Pat neighborhood of Jerusalem. Shana is from Teaneck, attended Yeshivat Noam for elementary school and Ma’ayanot for high school. Her family davens at Congregation Rinat Yisrael. She is also a… read more

Nishmat Gala Honors Teaneck Yoetzet Halacha Shoshana Samuels

Nishmat Gala Honors Teaneck Yoetzet Halacha Shoshana Samuels

http://www.jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13080:nishmat-gala-honors-teaneck-yoetzet-halacha-shoshana-samuels&catid=151:community-news&Itemid=584 Shoshana Samuels, Yoetzet Halacha for Congregations Rinat Yisrael, Shaarei Tefila and Netivot Shalom in Teaneck and teacher of Jewish philosophy at Ma’ayanot High School for Girls, will receive the first annual Nishmat Miriam Glaubach Center Award for Excellence, presented at Nishmat’s 26 thAnniversary Gala on Wednesday, June 1, at the Harmonie Club in New… read more

Jewish Link: Seven Yoatzot Halacha to Graduate from Nishmat’s American Program

Jewish Link: Seven Yoatzot Halacha to Graduate from Nishmat’s American Program

by Elizabeth Kratz, The Jewish Link, October 15, 2015 Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center, a branch of the Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women in Jerusalem, has a U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program, which is hosted at Teaneck’s Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls. This month, the program is holding its second-ever graduation,… read more