Machon Gold

Machon Gold was an Orthodox Jewish girl's seminary (originally co-ed) founded in 1958 by the Torah Education Department of the World Zionist Organization and named after Rabbi Wolf Gold, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.{{Cite web|last=Geffen|first=David|title=Streetwise: Rehov Harav Ze'ev Gold, Jerusalem|url=https://www.jpost.com/magazine/streetwise-rehov-harav-zeev-gold-jerusalem|access-date=2021-03-02|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|language=en-US}} It was arguably the first such seminary intended for students from the US.{{Cite web|last=Bernstein|first=Jacob|title=Chasing a Torah Revolution: Ki Mitzion Tetzei Torah|date=18 April 2018 |url=https://blogs.yu.edu/news/israel-at-70/|access-date=2021-03-02|language=en-US}} The school closed in 2008 due to financial considerations. A Facebook message to alumna [http://pl-pl.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2374642703&topic=4216]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} explains this. Its former official website www.machongold.org is now a site to sell jewellery.

It was one of the few Religious Zionist seminaries for English speakers in Israel.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Erik|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gi4RivYmrpgC&dq=%22machon+gold%22+2008&pg=PT99|title=Youth Tourism to Israel: Educational Experiences of the Diaspora|publisher=Channel View Publications|year=2008|isbn=9781845410841|pages=83}} It was located in Jerusalem, in the Geula neighborhood.{{Cite web|last=Greenberg|first=Blu|title=Is Now the Time for Orthodox Woman Rabbis?|url=https://momentmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Is-Now-the-Time-for-Orthodox-Woman-Rabbis.pdf|access-date=2021-03-02|website=momentmag.com}}{{Cite web|last=Posner|first=Esther|title=The goodwill is all|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/the-goodwill-is-all-648129|access-date=2021-03-02|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|language=en-US}} In the two decades before closing, most students were post high school, continuing their Torah Study for a year or two in Israel; prior to that, most students came as part of a study abroad program in college.{{Cite web|last=DeFaveri|first=Matt|title=CJN's Jews of Interest: Ilana Shafran Mandel|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/cjns-jews-of-interest-ilana-shafran-mandel/article_c83773e0-58fb-11e2-aca1-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Cleveland Jewish News|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=1968-02-15|title=Eshkol Implores YU Students To Aid Israel Through Aliyah|url=https://yucommentator.org/2019/04/from-the-commie-archives-yu-and-israel/|access-date=2021-03-02|website=The Commentator}}

The school's faculty included Nechama Leibowitz and Rabbi Yeshayahu Hadari (who later founded boys' seminary Yeshivat HaKotel).{{Cite news|last=Klein Greenwald|first=Toby|date=March 2017|title=Finals under Faraway Fire|work=Jewish Action|url=https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2017/05/22/israeli-couple-tells-their-six-day-war-memories/}}

Classes emphasized Halacha, Tanakh and Hashkafah, and included courses in Gemara, Mishna, Musar, Jewish philosophy and Jewish history. Department for Jewish Zionist Education: {{Cite web |url=http://www.jafi.org.il/education/study/hadracha/gold.html |title=Machon Gold |access-date=2007-08-14 |archive-date=2008-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725123758/http://www.jafi.org.il/education/study/hadracha/gold.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}

Students graduating from Machon Gold received a teacher's license from the Israel Ministry of Education.[http://www.ou.org/ncsy/projects/yeshivas/machongold.htm NCSY online Yeshiva directory]