Student of the week – Jake Wisotsky
“Suhh! My name is Jake Wisotsky and I’m from Fair Lawn, New Jersey. One of the primary reasons I came to do a gap year in Israel was to improve as an individual and become one with the culture of my people. Israel had much to offer in these fields. I began looking at options […]
Student of the week – Ofir Zeev
Our student of the week comes to us from down under! Hi! I’m Ofir Zeevi from Sydney, Australia. Long before I graduated from my Jewish day school, Moriah College in November 2015, I knew I wanted to spend an extended period of time in Israel. Having spent a long time looking through all the programs […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv February 21, 2016
Shalom Parents! Last week I was talking to the students about maximizing their time in Israel and during the talk one of the students asked me, “Adi, are you maximizing your time? Do you have plans for the weekend?” At first I was surprised by the question but my answer was, “at the moment no, […]
Student of the week – Josh Pincus
Hey, my name is Josh Pincus. I am from Johannesburg, South Africa and I have always planned to take a gap year in Israel after finishing school. I have always felt a deep connection with Israel. My intention was to find a gap year program that allows you to absorb Israeli culture and at the […]
Ethiopia 2016
Day 1 We all arrived safe and sound to Gondar which is an amazing looking city. We got a taste of Ethiopia a little earlier than expected. After our arrival to Addis Ababa the receptionist who was supposed to welcome us in immigration, and to stamp us in, was nowhere to be found. After all […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv Dec 27, 2015
Shalom Parents! Our week began with a meeting with the culture committee about the final night of the semester. The students are excited about it and they are doing a lot of planning for the final evening. On Monday the Chinese students returned (those who came back from the trip to China) and we were […]
Czech Republic 2015
Day 1 Greetings from Prague! Today was a wonderful day despite it starting out before the sun was even up. We all met at the airport at 5:15 am and after making our way to duty free, we had breakfast together at Aroma where the cashier couldn’t get over the fact that our order was […]
Spain 2015
Day 1 We got to our hotel which is located three minutes from la rambles, the center of the city. We stored our luggage, Jade changed her sweatpants to jeans, and we headed out to start our trip! First we went to casa batllo, an extraordinary building that was renovated by Spain’s most famous architect, […]
Prague 2014
Day 1 Hello from Prague, We arrived to Prague safe and sound! Even though we didn’t get much sleep at night as the flight left Ben Gurion Airport at 5:20 in the morning, we dropped our bags in our great new rooms and quickly left to explore the city. We started our day with a […]
Germany 2014
Day 1 Berlin is cold! I don’t care what anyone else says, coming from Israel weather to 37 degrees is cold!! Nonetheless out trip so far has been smooth sailing…minus the part where Rachel was detained in our transit stop in Istanbul..because she had a metal fork in her carry-on from Israel…… Ever get yelled […]