Mazal Tov to Elianna Pollak (SFW ‘09)!

Mazal Tov to Elianna Pollak (SFW ‘09) on her engagement to Chaim Mitnick

שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל

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Mazal Tov to Rabbi Jason Knapel and Family!

Mazal Tov to Rabbi Jason Knapel and his wife and family on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Mordy!

שיזכו לגדלו לתורה לחופה ולמעשים טובים

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Shiur on Parshat Ki Tissa

Please click here to listen to a shiur (in Hebrew) on the parsha by the S’gan Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Aryeh Hendler, shlit”a

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Scenes from SFW: Purim II

Scenes from SFW: Purim I

Purim Sameach!

Wishing all of our current, past, and future students and all of Klal Yisrael a Purim Sameach!

May this Purim bring salvation from our enemies from Persia and elsewhere who are bent on our destruction and may we experience only peace, simcha and light for all of Klal Yisrael!

ליהודים היתה אורה ושמחה וששון ויקר!

Shiur on Purim

Please click here to listen to a shiur (in Hebrew) on Purim by the Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Yechezkel Yaakovson, shlit”a

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Scenes from SFW: Adar Fun III

Mazal Tov to Atara Staiman (SFW ‘10)

Mazal Tov to Atara Staiman (SFW ‘10) on her engagement to Zack Bienenfeld

שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל

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Scenes from SFW: Tiyul and Shabbat in Beit She'an

Shiur on Parshat Tetzaveh

Please click here to listen to a shiur (in Hebrew) on the parsha by the S’gan Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Aryeh Hendler, shlit”a

Thoughts to Our Students about the Tragedy in Itamar

Yesterday was the one year Yahrtzeit of the five members of the Fogel family murdered brutally in Itamar. We were asked to repost the following from last year....

Please click below to read a letter from Rabbi Goldsmith to our students and alumni about the recent, tragic events in Itamar.

Tragedy in Itamar and Rav Yaakovson's Hesped

Yesterday was the one year Yahrtzeit of the five members of the Fogel family murdered brutally in Itamar. We were asked to repost the following from last year....



 Along with the rest of Klal Yisrael throughout the world, we are shocked and grieved by the tragic news from Itamar this past Shabbat.

We joined thousands of other mourners as 5 members of the Fogel family were buried in Har Hamenuchot.

We daven that this month of v’nahafochu brings a complete reversal of sadness to joy: hafachta mispedi l’machol li.

Click below to read a transcript of Rav Yaakovson's hesped in Yeshivat Sha'alvim:

Annual Pink Day Worldwide

Many Sha'alvim students wore pink today - together with thousands of other people worldwide - to show support for, and learn about, young women and their families, of all Jewish backgrounds, facing breast cancer.

SFW joined Jews from a variety of communities, ages, etc. around the world - including many other seminaries in Israel - on Annual Pink Day (click here) organized by Sharsheret (click here). 

We are proud to be a part of this incredibly important cause and to support this wonderful organization!

Anita Tucker at SFW

Sha’alvim for Women was privileged to host Mrs. Anita Tucker on Tuesday evening. We heard Mrs. Tucker’s moving story about what it was like living in Gush Katif for 29 years and raising a family and a vegetable-raising and packing business there. 

She also told us the story of the disengagement from her first-hand experience and what is was like to live in temporary lodging in dormitories for almost a year before settling in the community’s temporary quarters in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim.

Mrs. Tucker works today helping the Gush Katif communities retain their unique character of Torah-and-Land of Israel values, friendly communal relations, and pioneering spirit. She also speaks around the world about the difficulties that the Gush Katif people overcame in order to remain united and receive compensation, in the form of land and housing, for their homes in Gush Katif.

Mrs. Tucker also won the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism in 2010. The Moskowitz Prize, founded by Dr. Irving and Cherna Moskowitz, was “established in recognition of the people who put Zionism into action in today's Israeli society -- at times risking their own personal security, placing the collective interest before personal needs, and doing what it takes to ensure a strong, secure Jewish homeland.”

 

Mazal Tov to Chloe Goldschmidt (SFW ‘09, '10)!

Mazal Tov to Chloe Goldschmidt (SFW ‘09, '10) on her engagement to Eli Zimmer

שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל 

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Mazal Tov to Meira Freiden (SFW ‘09)!

Mazal Tov to Meira Freiden (SFW ‘09, '10) on her engagement to Adam Weiss

שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל 

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Scenes from SFW - Adar Fun II