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Founding cohort September 2027

Fifteen places.
Start with a conversation.Apply to Masa Torah, a gap year Israel program for Jewish young men from public high schools with no yeshiva background required.

No Hebrew required. No background required. No idea what a masechta is? Good, that is exactly who this year was built for.

How it works

  1. 01

    Tell us you are interested

    The form below. Fifteen minutes, no fee, no commitment, and it can be him or a parent who fills it in.

  2. 02

    We call you

    A real conversation with the program director. We want to hear what he is looking for before he fills in anything longer.

  3. 03

    References and a longer talk

    Only after we have spoken once. Someone who knows him, and the questions that actually matter.

  4. 04

    A decision, and a plan

    An answer, and if it is a yes, a proper conversation about tuition, aid, and how to make the year work for your family.

Who you will be speaking to

Eliezer Maier Cohn

Program Director

Raised in Overland Park, Kansas and South Florida. Four years in Israel learning and teaching at yeshivas and year programs in Tel Aviv, Tzfat, Beit Shemesh, and Yerushalayim.

The application

Fifteen minutes, and we take it from there.

A parent or the applicant can fill this in. Everything marked optional really is optional: most of the guys this year is built for will leave the shul field blank, and that is entirely the point.

01Personal
02Address
03Parents
04Citizenship and passport
Israeli citizen?
Israeli passport?
05School and background

Whatever school he goes to. No Jewish schooling is expected.

Leave blank if none.

06Documents

A screenshot of the school portal is fine.

Just so we know who we are talking to.

Optional. Most applicants do not have one.

07Tell us more

In your own words. There is no right answer and we are not marking it.

Applying does not commit you to anything, and there is no application fee.

Would rather talk first? Write to office@torahtech.co, or use the contact form. Nobody is going to chase you.