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OTS Newsletter - Spring 2007Beren Campus Expands to Accommodate All Men’s Programs
Extensive construction work is now underway at Ohr Torah Stone’s Israel Henry Beren Campus in Shoshana, adjacent tKiryat o Efrat, in preparation for two major additions to the OTS roster of educational institutions for men. This September, both an existing hesder yeshiva and a new yeshiva program for post-high-school students from overseas will open their doors on the Beren Campus. At the same time, the construction will make it possible – for the first time ever – for all OTS men’s programs to be housed together on one campus. Yeshivat Siach Yitzhak, which has been affiliated with OTS for a number of years, will become a full-fledged member of the OTS family – and the first hesder yeshiva in the Ohr Torah Stone educational network. The yeshiva, currently located in the Dagan section of Efrat, will move to the Beren Campus this summer, joining
Yeshivat Torat Yosef (formerly Yeshivat Hamivtar Orot Lev), the OTS post-university program for students from overseas, the
Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary, and the Adoph and Ethel Beren Educators
Institute, which are already housed on the Beren Campus.
New Post-High School Program for Men
Recruitment is currently underway for the first group of students for Yeshivat Kol Tzofayich
(YKT), OTS’ new program for post-high school students from overseas. Director Yehuda Rothner explains that YKT will differ from other overseas programs by enabling its students to “transfer their yeshiva learning into a deeper understanding of how Torah values relate to a modern Jewish state.” This goal will be accomplished through introducing students to different disciplines of learning, providing them with opportunities to meet key decision-makers in areas relating to halacha and the State of Israel, and taking them on outings designed to strengthen their connection with the Land.
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