Social Clubs

HaBimak – Cooperative Beit Midrash

“Israel is not redeemed except out of ten people who sit with each other and each of them calls and disagrees with his friend and their voice is heard” (Tana Debi Eliyahu)

The Beit Midrash is a cooperative beit midrash that operates at the university and is intended for students who want to deepen their study of various topics in Judaism. The beit midrash is cooperative, which means that the participants take an active part in its operation and in the transmission of its content. As part of it, there are weekly study evenings conducted by one of the participants, a rabbi or a lecturer, and also activities around holidays, joint Sabbaths and more.

For more details: visit our Facebook page here

Droma

About Us: Beit Midrash ‘Droma’ is an extra-academic study space at Ben-Gurion University which is a Beit Midrash and a place of study for religious and secular students interested in experiential, existential and meaningful study of Jewish texts. In the Beit Midrash, we study the fundamental texts of Judaism in an orderly manner: the Bible, the Talmud, the thought of Israel, Hasidism and Kabbalah and try to create a deep familiarity and intimacy between the student and the texts. We are also exposed to a wide variety of other texts: literary, theoretical and philosophical as part of the search for spiritual depth and the open intellectual dialogue that we are trying to produce.
In Droma, secular teachers as well as rabbis and yeshiva leaders teach side by side as partners in this special discourse community of the renewed Jewish learning world who look to touch more deeply on big and small questions, and those who want to expand the social-intellectual circle and take part in a different level of discussion. Beit Midrash Droma operates in collaboration with the Yaakov Herzog Center for Jewish Studies.

Contact Us: Facebook: Droma – Beit Midrash for students
Website: Click here
Email: [email protected]

Students for Change

O’Sim Shinuyee is an association of social work students working to improve welfare policy in Israel, and to promote the social work profession.

Our goals and values:
1. Improving the image and status of social workers in the eyes of students and the general population through outreach activities.
2. The promotion of the profession and the examination of the academic contents so that they correspond to relevance in the field while emphasizing the practical trainings.
3. The continuation of the fight for the reimbursement of trips for practical trainings.
4. Conducting activities to connect and consolidate the students in the Social Work Department in Ben Gurion.5. Connecting the Ben-Gurion Students For Change to the city of BS through local collaborations, promoting social involvement, and contributing to the community. Club meetings are held once every two weeks in the Social Work Department, more details appear in the club’s Facebook group and are updated every week, look for us in the Facebook group.

What do we believe in? We believe in change in a welfare state based on social justice, equal opportunities, solidarity, democracy and mutual guarantee. We see the social work profession as a leader, shaper and defender of a social policy appropriate to these principles.
How do we operate? We examine the existing social policy, work to promote a more just policy, using tools of policy change, work towards improving the study content at various institutions and exercising their full rights as students out of an aspiration to acquire the most skills and abilities in order to leave prepared and ready for significant action in the professional field. Activities are on a full volunteer basis within the academic institutions and outside them.

Website link: https://www.osimshinooy.com

Paamonim Organization

“Paamonim” is a non-profit social organization that operates and accompanies approximately 4,000 families nation-wide.The Paamonim organization helps families with financial problems, through training and professional guidance in the financial and behavioral fields, allowing families to balance their budgets, exhaust their earning capacity and get on the road. At the same time, the organization makes sure to help reduce and settle debts and solve complicated financial problems.
“Paamonim” at Ben-Gurion University currently has around 70 volunteers helping 40 families. As the first student branch established in the organization, the branch has set itself the goal of leading the universities in Israel with initiative, the quality of assistance to families, professionalism and adapting the nature of the process to the students’ needs and their ideals.
Volunteering opportunities: the organization’s activity are on a voluntary basis only and it includes escorting families in financial distress, escorting a family together with an additional escort throughout the student year. Personal meetings with the family while teaching them tools according to the ongoing training and induction of the team leader.
How can I volunteer? Students who wish to volunteer are screened during the first weeks of the year, in order to coordinate expectations regarding the required commitment and check their suitability for the process. No prior knowledge is required! Those who were accepted to accompany a family, go through 8 sessions of training (3-4 hours each time) during their studies. At the end of the training, the volunteers are paired up and receive a family. Volunteers receive regular training from a team leader and undergo several professional training courses. A pair of counselors conduct personal meetings with the family according to the steps taught in the training. Prior preparation of the team is required for each meeting with the family, and there are summary tasks at the end of each meeting. The average scope of volunteering throughout the year is about 3-4 hours per week on average.

Contact us: By email – [email protected], or on the website – www.paamonim.org

Bishvil HaNefesh (For The Soul)

About: Bishvil HaNefesh is a student club established in 2019 with the aim of raising awareness about mental health, normalization, and expanding the discourse around mental health through social activism on campus. This is due to the growing importance of dealing with mental health, and in light of the need we have identified to provide necessary service to students on the issue.
How did it start? The club’s activities were started by a group of students who experienced firsthand the difficult loss of their close friend, the late Alon Davidian, who ended his life. Alon’s death was unexpected, because he was seen by the group as an optimistic, strong person and as a model. Therefore, the event enhanced the necessity to increase engagement with the issue of mental health, and the fact that it touches the lives of each and every one of us.
The club’s goals: raising awareness about mental health issues, the mental difficulties experienced by many students during their degree and breaking the stigma surrounding it. Creating a safe and pleasant environment in the academic space, which will allow an open discourse on issues related to mental health and the normalization of the discourse around them. Accessing information regarding the ways of receiving psychological help, both on behalf of professional bodies at the university and on behalf of various institutions outside it.
How? We created a dedicated community of volunteers hold regular meetings with club members and strive to provide responsibility and leadership to those interested in it. We expanded a virtual community through social networks, established a wide circle of support and assistance for students experiencing mental difficulties, hold physical and virtually events (lectures, discussion circles, etc.), with the aim of consistently raising the topic of mental health.

Contact us – Club Coordinators
Guy Shanval – 054-4375340, Inbar Levin – 054-2015031, Zafir Cameron – 054-5430955
By email – [email protected]
For the club’s Facebook page, click here.

Soul Talk

“If there was anything I lacked after the army, it would be for someone to explain to me what it is at all – processing combat experiences.” Do you know anyone who can’t let go of events from their military service? Soul Talk is a body that raises awareness and legitimizes the processing of combat experiences among all those who took some part, small or large, in combat during military service.

Contact us: (Facebook/email/website/mobile)
Look for Soul Talk on Facebook or visit the website.

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