Admissions

Maharat offers several admissions-based programs, including our signature Core Semikha ordination program, designed to support women before, during, and after rabbinical school, training them for maximum impact in the Jewish community.

Program Profile

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Core Semikha

Description

A four-year Orthodox rabbinic ordination program for women with full scholarships and learning stipends. We offer in-person, hybrid, and remote learning as well as full and part time options.

Qualifications

  • Women who identify as Orthodox
  • Intellectually rigorous and have immersive, structured, Torah learning experiences equivalent to one to two years learning full-time in a beit midrash, midrasha, or yeshiva environment
  • Hold a college degree or the equivalent
  • Actively engaged in Jewish community settings
  • Entrepreneurs in social, cultural, and geographic contexts who are excited to grow in learning and leadership
  • Passionate about serving the Jewish people

Get more information!

Contact admissions@yeshivatmaharat.org for more information. You can also visit our Core Semikha program page.

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Tehila: Ein Hanatziv-Maharat (Advanced Semikha in Israel)

Description

A four-year in-person ordination program located in northern Israel.

Qualifications

  • Women who identify as Orthodox
  • Intellectually rigorous and have with at least four to five years of prior beit midrash experience 
  • Are working in the Israeli community as Jewish professionals, educators, and communal leaders
  • Able to learn in person once per week
  • Actively engaged in Jewish community settings 
  • Passionate about serving the Jewish people

Get more information!

Contact Rabbanit Avital Engelberg, Director of Maharat BaAretz and Tehila.

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Beit Midrash Program

Description

A one-year immersive mekhina program for Orthodox women designed to enhance prospective semikha students’ Jewish textual literacy, fluency, and skills. We offer in-person, hybrid, and remote learning as well as full and part time options.

Qualifications

  • Women with familiarity and some experience learning Jewish talmudic and mishnaic texts
  • Read Hebrew with fluency and have some understanding of Hebrew
  • Hold a college degree or the equivalent
  • Be engaged in Jewish communal life 
  • Find personal meaning in living halakhically (according to Jewish law)
  • Be open to or interested in the possibility of pursuing rabbinic education and a rabbinic career 

Get more information!

Contact admissions@yeshivatmaharat.org for more information. You can also visit our Beit Midrash Program page.

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Maharat Campus Ambassadors

Description

Campus Ambassadors represent Maharat at their colleges through Maharat-sponsored programming and recruitment efforts while participating in Maharat learning programs. Campus ambassadors commit to planning at least three learning events on their campus over the course of the academic year, attending Maharat’s weekly college learning shiur, and attending the College Intensive at Maharat in January. They receive a stipend from Maharat, one-on-one mentorship from Maharat faculty, and the opportunity to plan national college events like our intensive and regional shabbatons.

Qualifications

  • Experience learning rabbinic text in its original language
  • Familiar with the basic history of Talmud and halakha 
  • A desire to learn in chevruta
  • An interest in deepening their understanding of core Jewish texts and ideas
  • Must identify as a woman

Get more information!

Contact Dr. Rachel Rosenthal, Director of Learning Initiatives.

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College Learning Fellowship

Description

A weekly online ​​halakha and/or gemara shiur for college students and a four-day intensive onsite at Maharat in New York. Fellows may apply to be College Ambassadors who receive a stipend.

Qualifications

  • Experience learning rabbinic text in its original language
  • Familiar with the basic history of Talmud and halakha 
  • A desire to learn in chevruta
  • An interest in deepening their understanding of core Jewish texts and ideas

Get more information!

Contact Dr. Rachel Rosenthal, Director of Learning Initiatives.

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Emerging Scholars

Description

A gap year scholarship celebrating women who are high school seniors and have demonstrated a personal commitment to leadership, spirituality, and Torah learning and programming in Israel for women on their gap year.

Qualifications

  • High school senior women with plans to attend a gap year program in Israel
  • Serve as a leader in the school and/or community
  • Be involved in an ongoing Torah learning experience .
  • Be nominated by a teacher, administrator, or community leader

Get more information!

Contact admissions@yeshivatmaharat.org for more information.

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Va’tichtov Writing Fellowship

Description

A year-long writing fellowship that elevates Jewish women’s scholarship The Fellowship operates on a three year cycle, with each year’s cohort focusing on a particular area of writing: teshuvot, op-ed and popular writing, and essay and long form pieces.

Qualifications

  • Identify as a woman
  • Has semikha, an advanced degree in Jewish studies, or the equivalent
  • Proficiency in reading halakhic literature in its original language
  • Proficiency in English as workshops will be taught in English

Get more information!

Contact Dr. Rachel Rosenthal, Director of Learning Initiatives.

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