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The Aardvark Monthly – June 2023

June 2023

Shalom Parents, Students, Partners, and Staff, Wow, here we meet again! June is nearly over and we are patiently waiting for our new students to arrive in late August. In the meantime, let’s focus on our students’ most recent adventures during our summer Plus add-on program! These students spent more than a week in Washington, […]

The Aardvark Monthly – May 2023

The aardvark monthly - may 2023

Shalom Parents, Students, Partners, and Staff, Wow, the last month of the semester flew by so fast! So much happened in just one month. How about we start telling you about it? ⬇️ Two of our international trips took place in early May, to Poland and Germany! Our Poland trip focused on the Shoa (Holocaust), […]

The Aardvark Monthly โ€“ April 2023

The aardvark monthly - april 2023

Shalom Parents, Students, Partners, and Staff, Wow, April flew by! We hope this newsletter finds you well, and we hope you have had meaningful experiences like our students have.. As we welcome the month of May, we are excited to share some updates from our Aardvarkians, who are now starting their last month in the […]

The Aardvark Monthly โ€“ March 2023

The aardvark monthly - march 2023

Shalom Parents, Students, Partners, and Staff, We are so happy to be with you here again, telling you about our students’ adventures from the past month. With Women’s Day, Purim, internships, volunteering, and two international trips to exciting places – wow, we just can’t wait to tell you all about it! So? What are you […]

The Aardvark Monthly โ€“ February 2023

The aardvark monthly - february 2023

Shalom Parents, Students, Partners, and Staff, The semester is flying by, and we are already nearly halfway through! The students are really beginning to feel like Israelis. A lot happened this month, so let us tell you all about it. Shall we? Naomi from Los Angeles, volunteering at Ichilov Hospital Jewish Identity seminar in the […]

The Aardvark Monthly โ€“ January 2023 – Spring semester – here we come!

Entrepreneurship students' visit to candivore

Shalom Parents, Students, Partners, and Staff, The semester has officially started and is now in session! In our biggest year ever, with six communities, nearly 340 students came to Israel from all over the world – Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, United […]

New academic collaboration with Portland State University

Portland state university

We are thrilled to announce a wonderful new partnership with Portland State University which offers participants in all of the Aardvark Israel Program the opportunity to earn college credits from PSU for their courses taken in Israel. Over the last 12 years, Aardvark Israel has enjoyed an incredibly productive and positive relationship with the American […]

The Aardvark Monthly โ€“ April 2022 – Passover and first days of Spring!

Orr, joseph, omri, and ori from levontin on the rooftop

Shalom Parents, Students, Partners, and Staff, After a nice, long Spring Break, when our students traveled the country, got together with their families in Israel, or traveled back home, we are back with another exciting newsletter, in which we will tell you about some of our students’ adventures from the past month. Are you ready […]