Emunah Alma High School Social Culinary Course
Pupils from Emunah’s Alma High school visited a local seniors care home as part of an social outreach project. The girls talked to the seniors about their lives and their favorite foods. They discussed how recipes are passed down through the generations. Everyone had a great time! At the next meeting they plan to choose […]
Sulamot Music Program at Neve Michael
Gabi (front left in the photo) is a graduate of Emunah’s Neve Michael children’s home. While there he learned to play an instrument as part of the Sulamot music program at Neve Michael. Sulamot – Music for Social Change is an innovative and inspiring music education program initiated by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, whose mission is […]
FROM A CHILD IN THE EMUNAH AFULA CHILDREN’S HOME TO COUNSELOR: THE CLOSING OF THE CIRCLE FOR MICHAEL
In the Emunah Afula Children’s Home everyone is excited as the Passover holiday approaches, because dozens of families will be hosted there. Michael Gaidel, 24, a graduate of Afula and now a counselor at the home, is organizing the Seder. Michael will not celebrate this Passover in his own home, but instead he will be […]
Emunah Neve Landy Bar Mitzvah Celebration
Last night Emunah Neve Landy celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of ten boys who live in the residential children’s village with a very special party. These boys all come from traumatic and troubled backgrounds and Emunah gives them a safe, secure and happy home. From their entrance down a long white carpet accompanied by drums and […]
Girls With Heart
To commemorate Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror, the students of Emunah Elisheva High School participated in a project called Stones With A Human Heart. It is a Jewish custom to put stones upon a grave when visiting it, as a sign that someone has been there and that […]
Emunah’s Female Graduates Step Up to Serve Our Country
Meaningful army service for women is indeed possible! Recently, the IDF has opened a unit for women combat soldiers, an outcome of a request by seminary directors whose graduates want to draft into combat units but are deterred due to religious considerations. Emunah chairperson Liora Minka said: ‘The IDF is doing a good thing in […]
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Thanks to Emunah, women are now being trained and certified to be kashrut supervisors in Israel. Even though there is no halachic (religious law) prohibition for women to be kashrut supervisors, supervisors in Israel have been almost exclusively men. In 2014, Emunah decided to change that reality, and got the Supreme Court to rule that […]
Don’t Forget Grandma and Grandpa!
When was the last time you sent a card to your grandparents? In honor of Family Day (an extension of Mother’s Day in Israel), the students at the Emunah Appleman College of Arts and Technology harkened back to old traditions and created greeting cards to send to their grandparents. The project received so much positive […]
Emunah at the Forefront of Preventing Domestic Abuse
Emunah’s Kol Kallah (Bride’s Voice) initiative continues to expand. In the past few months, hundreds of bridal counselors and mikveh (ritual bath) attendants all over Israel have been undergoing special training by Emunah, on a topic that until now did not involve bridal counselors: early identification, during the bridal training or at the mikveh, of […]
Children Caring for Children!
The toddlers at Emunah’s Day Care Center in Akko learned about how very young children in Ukraine are affected by the war there. The Director of the center is originally from Kyiv and she told the children personal stories about what is happening. The children all participated in making a Ukrainian flag, and added their […]