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Youth Village
A youth village ( he, כפר נוער, ''Kfar No'ar'') is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pioneers in this sphere, known as youth aliyah, creating an educational facility that was a cross between a European boarding school and a kibbutz. History The first youth village was Mikve Israel. In the 1940s and 1950s, a period of mass immigration to Israel, youth villages were an important tool in immigrant absorption. Youth villages were established during this period by the Jewish Agency, WIZO, and Na'amat. After the establishment of Israel, the Israeli Ministry of Education took over the administration of these institutions, but not their ownership. The Hadassah Neurim Youth Village, founded by Akiva Yishai, was the first vocational school for Youth Aliyah children, who had been offered only agricultural training until then. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Goldstein Youth Village
Israel Goldstein Youth Village, known in Hebrew as the Havat HaNoar HaTzioni ( he, חוות הנוער הציוני), is a youth village and high school in Jerusalem, Israel. History Havat HaNoar HaTzioni was established in 1949 as a home for 40 Jewish orphans who lost their families in the Holocaust. It was named for Israel Goldstein, a prominent rabbi and Zionist leader. Today the school has over 500 students, many of them new immigrants. In the summers, Havat HaNoar HaTzioni is one of the home bases of the Ramah Israel Seminar, a program affiliated with Camp Ramah, a network of Jewish summer camps in North America. Programs Jerusalem American International School is located in the youth village. The Lycée Havat-Hanoar-Hatsioni, a French international school, is affiliated with the youth village. Its ''terminale'' (final year of senior high school) classes were created in 1967/1968 by two groups: Nathanya by Léon Ashkénazi and Alyat Hanoar in Nazareth. These groups merged d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemin Orde
Yemin Orde () (Lit: "Orde Memorial") is a youth village near Haifa, Israel named for Orde Wingate. History Yemin Orde Youth Village was established in 1953 by the British Friends of Youth Aliyah. The name was given to commemorate British Major General Orde Charles Wingate, an ardent supporter of the Zionist cause and instrumental in the formation of the Israel Defense Forces. The village provides a safe haven for immigrant and at-risk children aged 5–19. The students hail from all the world. A youth village patterned after the Israeli model was established in Rwanda. Notable alumni * Usumain Baraka See also *Education in Israel The education system in Israel consists of three tiers: primary education (grades 1–6, approximately ages 6–12), middle school (grades 7–9, approximately ages 12–15) and high school (grades 10–12, approximately ages 15–19). Compulsory ... References Youth villages in Israel {{israel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Apple
A Beit (also spelled bait, ar, بيت , literally "a house") is a metrical unit of Arabic, Iranian, Urdu and Sindhi poetry. It corresponds to a line, though sometimes improperly renderered as " couplet" since each ''beit'' is divided into two hemistichs of equal length, each containing two, three or four feet, or from 16 to 32 syllables."Arabian Poetry for English Readers," by William Alexander Clouston (1881)p. 379in Google Books William Alexander Clouston concluded that this fundamental part of Arabic prosody originated with the Bedouins or Arabs of the desert, as, in the nomenclature of the different parts of the line, one foot is called "a tent-pole", another "tent-peg" and the two hemistichs of the verse are called after the folds or leaves of the double-door of the tent or "house". Through Ottoman Turkish, it got into Albanian and the bards of Muslim tradition in the Albanian literature took their name after this metrical unit, the poets known as bejtexhi Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayanot
Ayanot ( he, עֲיָנוֹת, ''lit.'' Fountains) is a youth village in central Israel. Located near Ness Ziona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The village was named after the numerous springs in the area, though other sources claim it is taken from Deuteronomy ; "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills." The Jewish National Fund wrote in 1949 that the name is derived from the Arabic. History The foundation of the village began with the purchase of of land by Ada Maimon as a girl's training farm in 1926. The village was established on 30 March 1930, though no-one lived on the site until Maimon, ten girls and a guard moved in on 12 January 1932; until then they had lived in nearby Ness Ziona. During World War II, the village became an agricultural school and took in young Holocaust survivors Holoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aluma
Aluma ( he, אֲלֻמָּה or , ''lit.'' Sheaf) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the southern coastal plain around three kilometers north-west of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1965 as a youth village named Hazon Yehezkel by a group called ''Mosadot Hinukh Ezuri'' (lit. ''Institute for Regional Education''), made up of young members of Agudat Yisrael. It was built on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian village of Hatta. In 1996 the Ministry of Interior granted the village municipal council status and renamed it Aluma. In 2014, the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a Byzantine-era church with a magnificent mosaic floor. The church was discovered during a salvage dig prior to the construction of a new neighborhood on the moshav. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonei Yitzhak
Alonei Yitzhak ( he, אַלּוֹנֵי יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Yitzhak Oaks) is a youth village in northern Israel. Located near Binyamina, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1948 by Yehiel Harif to absorb children who had survived the Holocaust. It was named after Yitzhak Gruenbaum. Today the village is a boarding school that teaches 675 children (275 residential, 400 day students) from 7th to 12th grade. Alonei Yitzhak nature reserve A 31-acre nature reserve within which the Village is located was declared in 1969, mainly of old Valonia oak trees (''Quercus macrolepis''), in close proximity to the youth village. Other flora in the oak forest includes '' Cyclamen persicum'', ''Calicotome villosa'', ''Ephedra Ephedra may refer to: * Ephedra (medicine), a medicinal preparation from the plant ''Ephedra sinica'' * ''Ephedra'' (plant), genus of gymnosperm shrubs See also * Ephedrine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adanim Youth Village
Adanim Youth Village ( he, כפר נוער עדנים, ''Kfar No'ar Adanim'') is a youth village in the northwestern Negev desert of southern Israel. Located close to Beit Kama, it is within the borders of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. The youth village was established in 2007 and houses a boarding school catering for around 60 pupils age 12 to 18 with mental and emotional Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition ... difficulties. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services. External linksOfficial website {{Bnei Shimon Regional Council Youth villages in Israel Populated places established in 2007 Populated places in Southern District (Israel) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haaretz
''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the ''International New York Times''. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the internet. In North America, it is published as a weekly newspaper, combining articles from the Friday edition with a roundup from the rest of the week. It is considered Israel's newspaper of record. It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues. As of 2022, ''Haaretz'' has the third-largest circulation in Israel. It is widely read by international observers, especially in its English edition, and discussed in the international press. According to the Center for Research Libraries, among Israel's daily newspapers, "''Haaretz'' is considered the most i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jweekly
''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc. It is based in San Francisco, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m .... History The origins of ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'' date from November 22, 1895, when the San Francisco newspaper ''The Emanu-El'', began publications, In 1932, a merger occurred with a competing Jewish newspaper, the ''Jewish Journal''. In 1946, following a merger, it changed its name to the ''Jewish Community Bulletin'', in 1979 it was renamed the ''San Francisco Jewish Bulletin'', in 1984 it was renamed the ''Northern Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Residential Education
Residential education, broadly defined, is a pre-college education provided in an environment where students both live and learn outside their family homes. Some typical forms of residential education include boarding schools, preparatory schools, orphanage An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or a ...s, children and youth villages, residential academies, military schools and, most recently, residential charter schools. References * Flint, Anthony, "Boarding School Approach to Youths At Risk Questioned", ''Boston Globe'', August 16, 1993. * Goldsmith, Heidi, "The Renaissance of Residential Education in the U.S." Conference Summary, October 2000. External links CORE: the Coalition for Residential EducationWashington, DC Metropolitan Area School types Total institutions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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