השיעור דן בסוגי לומדים ובדרכי לימוד התורה. באמצעות לימוד האגדה התלמודית על רבי אליעזר והמכוער ומקורות נוספים מתבררות השאלות: מה משמעות הביטוי? מהי "חבורה"? מהי חשיבותה ללימוד התורה? מיהם הלומדים?

ביקור חולים הוא ערך חשוב במורשת היהודית. המערך מאיר את הקושי הכרוך בביקור חבר בבית החולים לצד הערך הרב של עשייה זו, תוך כדי התבססות על המקורות. בנוסף המערך מציע הדרכה בסיסית לתלמיד כיצד לנהוג בביקור חולים בבית החולים.

דנה שמסיאן, מנהלת תכנית 'תדרשי', 'ממזרח שמש'

הרבנית עדינה בר-שלום, בתו של הרב עובדיה יוסף ומייסדת המכללה החרדית, הגיעה ביום שני למפגש מרתק בתכנית 'תדרשי' של 'ממזרח שמש – כל ישראל חברים'. השילוב בפעילות של הרבנית בין עשייה חברתית למען נשות המגזר החרדי לבין סיפור גדילה והתבגרות בביתו של אביה, יוצר סיפור מרתק, שעורר בנשים הלומדות ב'תדרשי' עניין רב.

הרבנית סיפרה על הקמת המכללה וחשיבותה החברתית בתוך המגזר שבו היא פועלת ולכל חברה הישראלית. סיפורה של המכללה מציג את ההתמודדות עם תופעות ההקצנה, ההדרה והאפליה בציבור הישראלי בכלל ובציבור החרדי בפרט. הרבנית העלתה על נס את השקפת העולם הספרדית המתונה שבה קיימת אחריות חברתית ודתית כלפי הציבור כולו, ופירטה את הדרכים שבהן ניתן לנקוט כדי לשנות את המצב ולקדם נשים כמנהיגות ציבוריות. המפגש עורר השראה עצומה בקרב המשתתפות ונתן חיזוק משמעותי לפעילותן.

'תדרשי' הוא בית מדרש לנשים, המקדם פרויקטים מעשיים למניעת תופעות של הדרת נשים תוך לימוד עולמות הידע והמסורת, שעוגנו בקהילות המזרחיות, ורכישת כלים לשינוי חברתי.

Michal Feiglis, Kerem Institute student

Shimon Adaf, exposed, speaks about his book, Mox Nox, with Bilha Ben Eliyau at the Kerem Institute. Stripping themselves of their academic titles and extensive professional experience, they look like students in the intimate Kerem auditorium, as they speak to each other and to the audience with familiarity. A conversation in a protected space, enveloped by the sounds of Kerem student Talia Ashuri's piano-playing. Bilha connects to the music. Her smile and warmth radiate as she listens to Adaf, and together they share some of the Mox-Noxi magic with their listeners.

I'd like to dwell on a moment from that evening encounter, during which Adaf began to read a section from his book and Bilha resumed where he left off. A harmonic moment, during which I observed young people seated around a low stage in the heart of Jerusalem, listening to the two artists, along with teachers, literary critics and authors. As they listened, their attention became part of the reading and writing. For a moment, the uncertainty at the horizon cleared; for a moment it was, is and will be possible, possible to deal with life and literature...while Bilha, reading Adaf aloud, with precision, continued to paint the lines of my thoughts.

Hila Levy, Director, Educational Projects, Shaar

In a moving event, 32 students have recently celebrated the completion yet another successful year of providing support for the pupils of the Pardess Katz neighborhood Remez and Neve Sarah schools. The students, residents of the neighborhood, are graduates of these same schools. They work with the schools' current pupils towards matriculation examinations, receive a stipend to finance their university studies and participate in empowerment workshops throughout the year. Pupils report that the individual accompaniment that they receive from the students helped raise their faith in their abilities to succeed in school and encouraged them to aspire towards higher education.

Iris Doron, the Remez school principal, states that the rates of qualification for matriculation certificates and the number of students at the school expressing the desire to register for higher education have been steadily increasing ever since the program began operating in the school.
The Shaar – Kol Israel Haverim Ida Scholarship program provides accompaniment for the school's graduates, once they have obtained their matriculation certificates, in higher education and in finding suitable employment. It also provides the school's pupils with support towards obtaining higher quality matriculation certificates and, by so doing, strengthens the links between college students and their community.

In his address, Sam Pinto, Kol Israel Haverim's Chairman, spoke of the importance of the education he received while still a child in Morocco, and reiterated the commitment of Kol Israel Haverim and his family to continue encouraging scholastic excellence in the Pardess Katz neighborhood.

Gila Tatar, Principal, KIAH School for the Deaf

This week marked a pedagogical achievement and educational triumph at the Kol Israel Haverim School for the Deaf in Jerusalem. For the first time ever, ten of the school's students, Jews and Arabs alike, all deaf, or hearing-impaired with additional handicaps, took their matriculation examination in pastry confection. All ten succeeded and obtained grades between 80 – 90%. As the examination ended, not a few tears of emotion were shed by teachers and staff members, who all took part in preparing the students for the exam.

During the past five years, the KIAH School for the hearing-impaired has partnered with special education schools in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yovel neighborhood to present their students for matriculation examinations. Our entry into this process generated professional expectations from our pupils and especially from our teachers. This successful achievement is the result of the pupils' abilities and determination in overcoming language and communication obstacles and of their teachers' joint resolve towards professionalization by raising expectations and setting new and loftier objectives for the pupils.

Guy Gardi, Director, Morasha

Stav Assus and Israel Rona, representatives of the Kibbutz Sa'ad Da'at School grade 5A class, will be awarded the Morasha prize for social responsibility for their project on the integration and accompaniment of a class of new immigrants from Ethiopia in their school. The prize will be awarded at the Morasha Annual Summer Conference, to be held July 3 at Givat Washington. The prize is awarded annually to classes from Morasha Network schools for social responsibility projects, to promote further social action at the school.

The summer conference is a peak event that sums up the year's activities in Jewish education to social values in Morasha – Kol Israel Haverim schools. School principals, teachers and pupils, chosen to represent their schools, along with their parents, are invited to the conference. It is a moving experience each year to witness the welcome output of the community work and volunteering done by pupils in their schools.

This year's conference will feature a discussion on educational leadership, led by Bilha Ben Eliyahu from the Kerem Institute and Dr. Meir Buzaglo from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, both of whom participated in this year's national Yom Haatzma'ut torch-lighting ceremony.
We invite the entire Kol Israel Haverim family to join us and share in meaningful study and in the moving moments representing the best aspects of our society.

Eva Labi, Director, Department for Jewish Education in Diaspora

For the second consecutive year, Alliance – Kol Israel Haverim will be organizing and operating a summer camp at the Mikve Israel campus for youth from countries all over the world. Boys and girls, ages 12 – 17, from diverse Jewish communities in different countries, speaking different languages – observant, secular and traditional – receive the opportunity to meet and get to know one another. The camp program offers an abundance of excursions, attractions and opportunities for experiential study. The camp's principle underlying values are mutual respect and it promotes becoming familiar with differences, towards the understanding that all are part of the rich human fabric that is the Jewish people.

Mikve Israel was a natural choice to host the summer camp. Established by Charles Netter in 1870, it reflects the KIAH spirit and orientation in its mission to provide education for all, to deal with agriculture and to renew the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel. Today, it is a "green lung" blooming in the country's center and in midst of a conservation and renewal process.

 The camp will be held betwwen July 11th to 30th. 

Dana Shamasian, Director, Tidreshi Program, Memizrach Shemesh

Rabbanit Adina Bar Shalom, daughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and founder of the Ultra-Orthodox College, was hosted at a fascinating encounter at the Memizrach Shemesh – Kol Israel Haverim Tidreshi program. The Rabbanit's integration of social action for women in the ultra-Orthodox sector and her personal history of having been raised in her renowned father's home form the basis for an extraordinary story that aroused great interest among the women studying in the Tidreshi program.

The Rabbanit discussed the establishment of the college and its social import within the sector in which she is active and for Israeli society as a whole. The story of the college illustrates some of the challenges in facing extreme incidents of extremism, exclusion and prejudice in Israeli society in general and in ultra-Orthodox society in particular. The Rabbanit praised the moderate Sephardi worldview, according to which social and religious responsibility is implemented in the entire community, and outlined possible avenues for change and for promoting women's public leadership. The encounter was highly inspiring and, by enhancing the meaning of their efforts, greatly strengthened participants' resolve.

Tidreshi is a women's study house that promotes hands-on projects aimed at preventing the exclusion of women through study of the lore and tradition anchored in mizrachi communities and by providing tools for social change.

Mirit Haibi Barak, Director, Student Department and Northern Region, Memizrach Shemesh

Students from Beer Sheva, Afula and Migdal HaEmeq, all participants in the Kol Israel Haverim – Memizrach Shemesh Netu'im program, met with local leaders involved in leading change as part of their annual event held on the 21st of Sivan (May 30, 2013). Their day began with a meeting with Ms. Chen Kadosh, a community activist and alumnus of the Memizrach Shemesh – Kol Israel Haverim KEMACH program, and with Mr. Avi Sebbag, Director of the The Naggar School of Photography, Media and New Music in Musrara, Jerusalem. The two leaders discussed the changes they led in their neighborhood, Musrara. Later during the day, participants met with Ms. Tal Ohanna, Vice-Mayor of Yeruham, who shared how she decided to return there to join in the leadership of her hometown.

The students visited the Kotel, learned about the connection between leadership within and external leadership, and concluded the day with paytan Hacham David Menachem, graduate of the Memizrach Shemesh – Kol Israel Haverim program for rabbinic social leadership and a leader in the piyut revolution. The participants were very enthusiastic about their many encounters and, as budding local leaders themselves, had their own personal questions to ask.

The Netu'im program seeks to reshape the perception of leadership in Israeli society and to highlight aspects such as sensitivity to social issues and the sense of solidarity and commitment to others, so as to resituate them alongside characteristics usually identified with leadership – such as assertiveness, ability direct and charisma. The Netu'im event was a peak day in the program.