2008 Woodie Awards
First Cuts Made To Israel Program
Men's Neveh Zion, Women's Ba'er Miriam and Neve Yerushalayim Notable Drops
Zev Eleff
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As a precursory evaluation to the University’s Israel school reaccredidation process, YU has removed five schools from its S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program. The decision was made by a committee headed by Revel and Stern College Professor Ephraim Kanarfogel under the aegis of the Office of University Life.
No formal statement was released by the University explaining the decision to part ways with these schools before the first formal stage of the reaccredidation process begins.
The list includes three men’s yeshivot: Neveh Zion, Shaarei Yerushalayim and Shvut Israel. The two women’s seminaries no longer on the Program are Ba'er Miriam and Neve Yerushalayim. All changes to the SDAIP school list were updated last week on the Program’s website and will be effective for the ’08-’09 academic year.
In addition to the two seminaries, Michlelet Esther, a branch of Neve Yerushalayim, was also removed from the SDAIP.
YU’s formal reevaluation of the remaining 43 schools on the Israel Program commences later this month. According to University officials, the reevaluation of undergraduate credit for these schools will involve four major factors: the percentage of students who had formerly planned to attend Yeshiva who do so after their year in Israel, the academic and programmatic quality of the Israeli yeshivot and seminaries, the ideological and educational stances of Israeli schools compared to those of YU and the Israeli programs' overall openness and willingness to communicate with YU.
None of the men’s schools on this list send a critical number of students to YU. Currently, there are only two students living on Wilf Campus Housing who previously attended Neveh Zion, one from Shaarei Yerushalaim and none from Shvut Yisrael in Efrat.
Among the women’s schools, only Ba’er Miriam served as a considerable feeder seminary for Stern College. In addition, Ba’er Miriam is the sister school of Rabbi Levi Orbach’s, one of the men’s schools removed from SDAIP.
Prior to this, only three schools have been removed from the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program; Bais Yisroel, Derech Etz Chaim and Toras Moshe. One women’s seminary, Bnot Torah headed by Rabbi Label Sharfman voluntarily asked to be removed from the Program.
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Malka
posted 11/05/07 @ 5:12 PM EST
Is Bnot Torah the only yeshiva/seminary listed in this article that voluntarily chose to leave SDAIP, rather than YU removing them?
adinawollner
posted 11/06/07 @ 4:43 PM EST
I am just wondering why they would drop these schools. I know plenty of girls my year from M.E. who went to stern.
Is this going to affect how many credit they will be receiving?
I want to apply my credits I earned from the backed up M. (Continued…)
y.a.m.
posted 11/06/07 @ 11:04 PM EST
l'chorah YU is not the open-minded place that it makes itself out to be. It has its agenda just like all other jewish institutions.
DK
posted 11/06/07 @ 11:18 PM EST
Ohr Somayach's Derech program should be swiftly removed as well. This place is fundie to the core, hates YU, and teaches absolute contempt towards Modern Orthodoxy. (Continued…)
sam
posted 11/07/07 @ 2:28 AM EST
A new Mccarthiasm......this is just the begining of a larger anti chareidi policy orchestrated by Richard Joel. This is what happens when a non Talmudic Scholar is president It is similiar to the state of Israel not recognizing YU creidits and degrees. (Continued…)
Yosef
posted 11/07/07 @ 1:08 PM EST
This article was supremely uninformative. While it may be the case that these schools are no longer on the SDAIP, it is never explained what are the prerequisites for being part of the SDAIP, and neither is it explained how these programs are failing to meet the standards set by the SDAIP. (Continued…)
Rabbi Label Sharfman
posted 11/08/07 @ 8:43 AM EST
I read with interest your recent article "First Cuts Made To Israel Program".
For your information, your statement that, "One women's seminary, Bnot Torah headed by Rabbi Label Sharfman voluntarily asked to be removed from the Program," is technically correct, although it
happened over 20 years ago. (Continued…)
Rebtsvi
posted 11/09/07 @ 4:34 AM EST
The reasons schools such as Bnot Torah did not want to be part of the YU program is YU's refund policy. YU has standards on a student withdrawing and receiving a portion of their tuition in return. (Continued…)
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