Menachem Bombach, at The Blogs

Jan 27, 2025, 5:21 AM

Manhattan’s Jewish Renaissance: The ALTNEU Effect

On Shabbat morning, after the Musaf prayer, despite battling the flu, Rabbi Goldschmidt stood and addressed the five hundred families that filled ALTNEU. The silence in the hall was absolute as he shared a story that touched every heart. He...

Dec 12, 2024, 3:19 PM

Shtreimels & Fatigues: Celebrating Hassidim Who Serve

As an education entrepreneur, my “Nasdaq bell-ringing” moment happened last week as I was standing under the wedding canopy with Yitzchak and Rivka – a handsome young Tolne- Hassid and his bride. Suddenly I felt that my schools network...

Oct 30, 2024, 11:37 AM

When the Torah weeps

In these days of blood, fire, and pillars of smoke, as our brothers fall sanctifying God's name, I stand with my soul torn. Not from doubt -- but from pain. Pain over our Torah world that has turned so...

Oct 11, 2024, 1:58 PM

Yom Kippur: Where Paradox Becomes Miracle

A single day encompasses a world of paradoxes. Yom Kippur is one day in the year that contains within it an entire world of paradoxes. A day when the impossible becomes possible, and contradictions settle into marvelous harmony. On this...

Oct 7, 2024, 9:24 AM

“In Our Unity – Our Victory”

A year. A full year has passed since that black day, a day that tore our hearts to shreds. And still, one hundred and one of our sons and daughters, flesh of our flesh, soul of our soul, are...

Aug 2, 2024, 3:17 PM

Haredi Society at a Crossroads

In these days, as the echoes of violent riots at the home of Rabbi David Leibel still reverberate, we are witnessing a deep crisis threatening to tear Haredi society apart from within. The violent struggle against the Rabbi, who...

Jul 18, 2024, 12:12 PM

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The quiet revolution in Haredi society

Illustrative. The rabbinic leader of the Gur Hasidic movement Yaakov Aryeh Alter, right, and Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky attend a United Torah Judaism Party campaign rally in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

The most conservative of all the ultra-Orthodox, Hasidic Jews are also pragmatic: they are doing things differently now, and changing their world

Apr 28, 2024, 2:07 PM

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The Haredi world must take civic responsibility

Student Success in the National Citizenship Test

Unless we can shift the ultra-Orthodox priority of segregating from Israeli society, the community is at great risk of more disasters

Feb 27, 2024, 6:33 PM

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The more Haredi men enlist, the easier it is for others to join them

Haredi men who decided to join the military amid the war between Israel and Hamas, at the IDF recruiting offices in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, October 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

If you're ultra-Orthodox, male, and not truly studying Torah all day long, it's time to think of the IDF

Oct 15, 2023, 4:03 PM

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It’s time for Haredim to join the IDF

Rabbi Menachem Bombach, in his IDF uniform. (courtesy)

In a game-changing development, at least 1,000 yeshiva students have responded to calls from ultra-Orthodox rabbis to enlist

About Me

Rabbi Menachem Bombach is an educator and an entrepreneur - founder and CEO of the Netzach Educational Network – and a spokesperson for the progressive Haredi community. Menachem was born and raised in the ultra-Orthodox community in Meah Shearim in Jerusalem as a Vizhnitz Hasid. Educated at the Mir Yeshiva, he earned his undergraduate degree in Education and graduate degree in Public Policy from Hebrew University, where he also founded a preparatory program (Mechina) for Haredi students. He was a fellow at Maoz and in the leadership program of Gesher, and is a fellow and senior project leader at the Mandel Institute. Menachem founded a ground-breaking Yeshiva High School (HaMidrasha HaHassidit in Beitar Illit) in 2017, expanding his vision to create the Netzach Educational Network of 18 Haredi schools. Today, Netzach provides over 3,000 students with an outstanding Haredi education alongside a full Bagrut (matriculation) certificate. This empowers them to create a strong, financially viable future for themselves, their future families, and the Israeli economy, while remaining strongly connected to their core values of Torah observance. Additionally, the network makes general studies accessible through the Eshkolot website, which serves more than forty thousand students. For more information, visit www.netzach.org.il

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