The Lifshitz College of Education (מכללת ליפשיץ - המכללה האקדמית הדתית לחינוך) is a religious institute for teacher training

Teacher training college

A teacher training college is a college of higher education that specialises in training students to be teachers.Many universities offer similar facilities, a number of which acquired their provision by taking over a teacher training college or by a teacher training college evolving into a...

 in Israel. It is "committed to excellence in teaching and the integration of modernity and Jewish life".http://www.lifshiz.macam.ac.il/en/about/02.pdf

It was founded in 1921 by Rabbi Eliezer Meir Lifshitz http://www.lif.ac.il/yedion/yedion08.pdf with the support of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar...

 and was the pioneering institution of its type. It was originally called the "Beit Midrash Mizrachi

Mizrachi (Religious Zionism)

The Mizrachi is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. Bnei Akiva, which was founded in 1929, is the youth movement associated with Mizrachi...

for Teachers".

The college is approved by the Council for Higher Education in Israel

Council for Higher Education in Israel

The Council for Higher Education in Israel is a supervisory body for universities and colleges in Israel. It is the only organization with the authority to give educational accreditation...

 and offers a range of programs, including fully accredited Bachelor of Education

Bachelor of Education

A Bachelor of Education is an undergraduate academic degree which qualifies the graduate as a teacher in schools.-North America:...

 and Master of Education

Master of Education

The Master of Education is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in a large number of countries. This degree in education often includes the following majors: curriculum and instruction, counseling, and administration. It is often conferred for educators advancing in...

 degrees. It conducts research on the methodology and philosophy of Jewish education

Jewish education

Jewish education is the transmission of the tenets, principles and religious laws of Judaism. Due to its emphasis on Torah study, many have commented that Judaism is characterised by "lifelong learning" that extends to adults as much as it does to children.-History:The tradition of Jewish...

; it also operates the "Lifshitz Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora

Diaspora

A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

".http://www.lifshiz.macam.ac.il/en/

See also

• Religious Zionism
  Religious Zionism
  Religious Zionism is an ideology that combines Zionism and Jewish religious faith...
  
  
• Hesder
  Hesder
  Hesder is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework...
  
  
• Talpiot College of Education
  Talpiot College of Education
  The Talpiot College of Education is a religious teacher training college in Tel Aviv, Israel. It prepares teachers “in the spirit of the Mamlachti dati education system”. It was founded in 1937 by Rabbi Dr...
  
  
• Herzog College
  Herzog College
  Herzog College is a teacher's college located in Alon Shevut, Gush Etzion, in the West Bank. It is named for the diplomat Yaakov Herzog...
  
  
• Michlala

External links

• College website (Hebrew
  Hebrew language
  Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
  
  )
• About the College