Credits & Scholarships

Credits

Bircas HaTorah currently has a joint program with Hebrew Theological College (Skokie). The Israel Experience Program (IEP) offered by Hebrew Theological College enables a student to spend a year of intensive study in an Israeli yeshiva or seminary while earning college credit. For more information about this joint program, visit their website

 

Yeshiva University has indicated to us that we will be an S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program member school for the 2011-2012 academic year. At present, all shana aleph students who attend YU after learning at Bircas for a year will receive 32 credits, pending a review of your transcript. For more information on the Joint Israel Program, see our page on www.yu.edu/jip

Scholarships

The Abraham Scholarships, the first Jewish international educational fellowships focused on identifying and nurturing future leaders of the Jewish people, were initiated to bring outstanding students from top universities throughout the United States to explore their heritage and traditions in leading yeshivot and seminaries in Israel. Due to the fact that many Jewish students have little or no contact with advanced Jewish learning, the Abraham Scholarships were designed to allow top students the opportunity to expand their experiences and knowledge of classic Jewish texts, and develop themselves to become leaders in the Jewish community. The opportunity to study in Israel, in the land which serves as a source of inspiration for Jews throughout the world, creates an atmosphere where students are able to develop a familiarity with their heritage, while living in the historic homeland of the Jewish People.

The Israel Scholarship Committee of the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies administers a limited amount of financial assistance for high school and college students to travel and study in Israel.  Students participating in approved programs will be eligible for assistance for the upcoming summer based upon financial need. Over the past 22 years, over 121 students have been recipients of grants totaling $98,700. Scholarships will be awarded from individual endowment funds, which have been established by donors for this special purpose

The Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship Fund is dedicated to the memory of Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old student studying in Israel murdered in a terrorist attack in near the settlement of Kfar Darom on April 9, 1995. Alisa was in Israel to study her religion and to live among the Israeli people.The Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established to encourage others to follow in Alisa's footsteps in the full-time pursuit of traditional Jewish studies at schools in the State of Israel. It is open to men and women throughout the Diaspora.Awards are given based on a combined scholarship and need basis. The intention of the Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship Fund is for it to be especially valuable to those students showing academic promise in their religious studies and the need for financial assistance to pursue study in Israel