Yeshivat Ner Tamid

News Letter

· Regional Interest in Ner Tamid

· Education that Unites

· Ner Tamid weekend in Chicago

· CHESED projects at Ner Tamid

· Honor the Talmid, Honor the teacher

Regional Interest in Ner Tamid

As Yeshivat Ner Tamid grows, we note an important milestone in the demographics of the student population. This year, more than half of the 260 students are commuting daily from throughout the region in order to attend Ner Tamid! The yeshiva’s philosophy of education as well as its concern for proper role modeling have given it a unique reputation far and wide. Citing their comfort with its philosophy and the background of its faculty, a group of twenty parents(former Amercians) living in Beit Shemesh arranged for a local neighborhood meeting with the Rosh Yeshiva to investigate the possibility of sending a group of boys to Ner Tamid next year.

Education that Unites

Yeshivat Ner Tamid encourages its students to see themselves as bridges to the secular - hiloni- community in Israel. Towards that goal, our 11th grade class is participating in a yearlong dialogue project with peers who attend school in Rechovot. Both sides have accommodated the needs of the other, and two dialogues have taken place, with at least two more planned to take place during the months ahead.

Ner Tamid weekend in Chicago

Chicago provided our Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Adler, with quite a warm welcome the first weekend in December! (really, the temperatures were in the 60’s!) Joined by Director of Development, Rabbi Morey Schwartz and David Kaplansky, father of one of Ner Tamid’s eighth graders, Rabbi Adler addressed members of the community at two synagogues on Shabbat, K.J.B.S. and K.I.N.S. He spoke on the realities of terrorism, and the obligation to serve in the I.D.F.On Sunday morning, 50 people came to a parlor meeting to support the yeshiva, and to hear Rabbi Adler speak about Religious Zionism in the 21 Century. In the words of one of the co-hosts, Shael Bellows:

We see your school as filling an important educational need in Israel, and we are impressed by your school’s significant accomplishments since your inception in 1995. Along with other members of the Chicago community who value the goals for which you stand, we look forward to continuing to support your endeavors, and call upon those who value the philosophy of Religious Zionism to do so as well. We look forward to developing a close relationship with Yeshivat Ner Tamid, and to further opportunities to lend support to you in this building campaign.
Ner Tamid salutes the members of the Chicago community for their commitment to our yeshiva and their ongoing interest in supporting our efforts to build a campus for our students. We look forward to our next visit.

CHESED PROJECTS AT NER TAMID

Gemilut Chasadim, acts of loving kindness, play an important role in Jewish identity. However, all too often the rigorous demands of a high school education and preparations for graduation exams take priority, and an education in Jewish living is outranked by an educaton in Jewish learning. However, armed with the understanding that learning is only more valuable than doing if the learning leads to doing, Ner Tamid students have taken upon themselves a very serious weekly chesed project. Members of the senior class will travel every Wednesday afternoon to the town of Elad, about one half hour’s drive from the yeshiva. There, they will help with elder care, tutor youngsters, distribute food to the needy, work with the handicapped, disabled and blind, and assist in beautification of the town.

HONOR THE TALMID, HONOR THE TEACHER

Spotlight on Rabbi Tzvi Dov Kanatopsky. As a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University for 28 years, Rabbi Tzvi Dov Kanatopsky æ”ì developed a growing reputation as a brilliant talmudist, a true disciple of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik æ”ì. As rabbi of two American congregations, Young Israel of Eastern Parkway and Young Israel of West Hempstead, he structured his sermons not to lull or entertain, but to teach congregants to think. His words were remembered and cherished.
In 1970, he went on aliyah. In Israel, he served as head of the Talmod Torah at Bar Ilan University, and senior lecturer at the Hebrew University and the Michlala for Women in Jerusalem. His untimely death not long after moving to Israel left the Torah world bereft of a great scholar and teacher.

Yeshivat Ner Tamid will pay tribute to Rabbi Kanatopsky through the dedication of one of the school’s eighteen new classrooms in his memory. This tribute is part of the yeshiva’s Honor the Talmid, Honor the Teacher project. Contact us to find out how you can participate in this special tribute.

Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Ner Tamid Hashmonaim Israel.

Last updated on 2/25/2002