Mr. David and Rivka Muller of the Donald Berman Foundation and Mr. Shmuel Weinglass of the Bituach Leumi Foundation for the disabled, honored us at the inauguration ceremony of the Children’s Library at Achiya, revealing the dedications to the foundations who gave Achiya their generous support needed to establish this Read more…
read moreChildren at the Elad Talmud Torah are expanding their young horizons with an Achiya program that is a collaboration with JDC-Ashalim and the Ministry of Education. Representatives of JDC-Ashalim and the Wohl Foundation enjoyed first-hand insights into the program’s success in the Haredi city of Elad. The program provides teachers Read more…
read moreWhen well known blog writer Sharon Altshul, writer for the Baltimore Jewish Life comes to visit at Achiya – this is the outcome. Thank you Sharon! http://www.baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=37&ARTICLE_ID=77033
read moreCultural Attaché, Michele Dastin van-Rijn, and Cultural Specialist, Risa Levy, visited the U.S. Embassy funded English Enrichment Program for ultra-Orthodox male teachers studying at Achiya’s Teachers’ Training College. The teachers-in-training learn basic ESL skills while learning about life in the United States. For man of the students, this course is Read more…
read moreMr. Yitzchak Levin, Director of of Achiya and Mrs. Tzivia Greenberg, Director of Development at Achiya, attended a reception in honor of the approaching New Year at the home of Mr. Daniel Shapiro, the United States Ambassador to Israel.
read moreCommunication isn’t just talk. We communicate through our facial expressions, our movements – or lack of movement – and our body language. Children with social difficulties often have difficulty deciphering non-verbal messages, which often leads to difficulties in many different areas of their lives. What can we do to help Read more…
read more“You can’t imagine how I felt,” says Tzivia Greenberg, Director of Development at Achiya. “I couldn’t believe that after so many years, not only did Yisrael’s mother remember us, but was still so intensely grateful for how Achiya helped her son.” Mrs. Cohen (name changed to protect privacy) phoned Read more…
read moreThe forum, which consists of the Educational Psychologists who head the Department of Education’s Psychological Services in Beit Shemesh Netivot, Elad, Haifa, Petach Tikvah and Jerusalem, visited Achiya to learn about its many activities. Rabbi Yaakov Weingarten, supervisor of the Learning Center’s Gemara Program spoke to the forum Read more…
read moreTen year old Rafael Cohen is the third Cohen boy to get help at the Achiya Learning Center.He’s the youngest of ten kids, and although he is intelligent, he needs specialized tutoring to master reading. Rafael’s father is a talmid chacham who devotes his days and nights to limud Read more…
read more“For as long as I can remember, I was never capable of sitting in one place for more than a few minutes. I never, ever stayed for an entire minyan. It was impossible. But I felt guilty for running away in the middle and couldn’t understand why I was different Read more…
read moreThe Directors of the Faculty for Occupational Therapy at the University of Haifa bestowed a Certificate of Appreciation to the Occupational Therapy Department of the Achiya Developmental Center in Elad. In the certificate they expressed their appreciation to Achiya for the excellent instruction they provided the OT students during their Read more…
read moreOn Tuesday, November 18, Achiya held a one day conference on ADHD for 240 Talmud Torah Principals. The conference’s impact was immediate. Following the conference, one of the principals told Rabbi Levin, Director of Achiya, “This morning I came to a very difficult decision. I realized that I had no Read more…
read moreAchiya is presently registering participants for its Special Morning Initiative for mothers of children with Down syndrome. The program consists of weekly fun and relaxing pool activities, workshops with Sharon Moscowitz, social worker and parent educator, and light refreshments. The program is highly subsidized by Achiya and offered as a Read more…
read moreNechama Peldini, a Music Therapist at Achiya shared the following story with us. The story is about a little girl named Rachel. But instead of me telling the story, I’ll let Rachel tell it: “I…I…don’t know.” That’s all I could say two weeks ago, when, during my therapy session at Read more…
read moreOn September 10, 2014, just two weeks before the beginning of the Jewish New Year, Achiya had the honor of hosting a delegation of trustees and representatives of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, including Marc Mateheru, Michael Feigelson, Julia Neuberger, Jacqueline Tammensoms-Bakker, Steven Kaempfer, Sam Worthingon, and Andre Betting. Over Read more…
read moreNir Seri, a music therapist at the Achiya Emotional Therapy Department in Bnei Brak was honored with giving a presentation at the prestigious International Conference of Music Therapy, this year held in Vienna Austria (http://www.musictherapyworld.net/WFMT/World_Congress.html). The topic of this year’s conference was Cultural Diversity in Music Therapy Read more…
read moreWe are living in very difficult times. In less than a week, from Tuesday July 8 to Monday, July 14, some 1,000 missiles have fallen in major population centers throughout Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli children are living with constant fear.Sharon Moskowitz, a Social Worker for the Achiya Developmental Read more…
read moreHere is Israel, where June 30 marks the end of the school year, everyone’s busy with school parties and graduations. It’s a time to look back at our accomplishments, and learn from our mistakes. The Developmental Assistants at Achiya’s Maagan program came together on Sunday, June 29 for Read more…
read moreIn response to community pressure, Achiya Teachers’ Training College opened a new three year evening course. We wish the thirty young men working toward an accredited degree in education much hatzlacha and bracha.
read moreThursday, we were surprised to receive an email from the principal of a school in Mitzpeh Rimon, which, for those of you not familiar with Israeli geography, is hours away from Bnei Brak, literally the far end of the country. “One of my students,” wrote the principal, “is having a lot Read more…
read moreEach month, Achiya’s Pedagogical Library sends over 1000 emails to teachers throughout Israel and beyond, containing relevant pedagogical material according to the teachers’ specific needs. The project, brainstorm of Rabbi Chaim Rosenstein, head librarian at the Achiya Pedagogical Library located at the Bnei Brak branch of the Teachers’ Training Read more…
read moreEven though I am no longer working with this particular teacher, he continues to hone his teaching skills, much to the children’s benefit.”
read moreDo you know why birds can sleep on a wire, and never fall off? I don’t, but that’s because I did not participate in any one of Achiya’s 16 mother-child learning events in Holon. Amidst laughter and giggles, with hands smeared with glue and paint, the children learned about the Center Read more…
read moreOn Monday, May 26, 2014, Achiya initiated a 12 part parenting course for mothers at the Achiya Center in Bnei Brak. At present, Achiya is sponsoring FOUR weekly parenting classes: a fathers’ class for fathers of children with ADHD; a mothers’ class for mothers of children with ADHD, a mothers’ Read more…
read moreOn Thursday, May 1, 2014, Achiya was honored to have its Language Skill Program featured at a nationwide conference attended by some 450 department and region supervisors from the Department of Education. Mrs. Ruth Elmaliach, coordinator of nationwide Haredi Education, opened the presentation with a few words explaining how Read more…
read moreRivka Aridan, head of the Department of Early Education for immigrants and Hareidim at JDC Israel- Ashalim sent Achiya the following birthday wishes: We, at the JDC Israel- Ashalim wish to express our appreciation at being partners with Achiya in developing and implementing innovate programs for the advancement of Read more…
read moreThe Municipality of Bnei Brak is working together with Achiya to provide therapeutic psychodrama groups to children aged 8 to 11 with severe social problems. The groups take place within the ultra-orthodox boys’ schools, during school hours. Many of the children participating in the groups are victims of abuse. In Read more…
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