Jerusalem Weekly – June 24, 2021
Hello Parents and Students,This week included some enlightening and some just-for-fun activities. On Sunday, the students went to Sacher Garden with their Madrichim for some outdoor activities, and also enjoyed the weather and cold coffee. This week for FOI (Faces of Israel), the students heard the fascinating story about the disengagement from Gush Katin 2005; […]
This week in the Rothschild Community TLV – June 24, 2021
Hello Parents and Students, This week was filled with insightful and enjoyable experiences. On Sunday evening, the groups spent some quality time with the Madrichim in their apartments. They enjoyed hanging out together and they even baked some amazing cookies and cakes. On Monday, Oz and Yoav’s groups had a session of Faces of Israel […]
Jerusalem Weekly – June 17, 2021
Hello Parents and Students,This week was fun and exciting, filled with great discussions and events. On Sunday, we celebrated with Israel, the formation of a new unity government in Israel, after 4 rounds of elections!!! This week, we also started new Chugim, one of which was “Get in the Driver’s Seat of Life” with Avi Engelhart. According to Avi, […]
This week in the Rothschild Community TLV – June 17, 2021
Hello Parents and Students, This week was fun and exciting, filled with great discussions and events. On Sunday, the students had an opportunity to get to know other Aardvarkians better by playing fun games that required them to work together. The community was divided into two groups – Yoav and Oz’s, and Stav and Netta’s. […]
Jerusalem Weekly – June 10, 2021
Hello Parents and Students,This past week was filled with exciting activities. On Sunday, we were divided into two groups: the Eilat group, and the Extreme group. On Monday, students on the Extreme Track went paragliding along the Mediterrranean coast near Kibbutz Shefayim. (Photo credit below: Shoshana Scott) This Monday we went paragliding, and it was an amazing […]
This week in the Rothschild Community TLV – June 10, 2021
Hello Parents and Students, This past week was filled with new and exciting activities. On Sunday, the students who signed up for the Eilat trip and those who signed up for Yam Le’Yam (Sea to Sea) left for their adventures. After a long drive south, the students on the Eilat trip arrived and enjoyed Banana […]
Summer Trips
This week our students got the chance to travel through Israel, up north, and in Eilat, the Southeast city in Israel. The students who chose to travel up north experienced some of the beauty Israel has to offer, hiking through rivers and the Sea of Gallilee in a well-known trip called Yam-El-Yam, that almost every […]
Jerusalem Weekly – June 3, 2021
Hello Parents and Students,This week was very exciting with new apartments and new experiences! On Sunday, the big move arrived, and after a long day of finishing up packing, cleaning, and arranging, we moved to the new apartments. Finally our entire community lives in one building now, at Ussishkin 59, Jerusalem. On Monday, some of us decided […]
This week in the Rothschild Community TLV – June 3, 2021
Hello Parents and Students, This week was very exciting with new apartments and new experiences! We started the week with a community discussion. We talked about how we are forming a community, about what we have built since the semester began, the things we’re looking forward to building together in the future, and how […]
LGBT Internships
Gila Cherny Hi everyone, my name is Gila Cherny, I’m an Aardvark alumni from Perth, Western Australia and I did the program in 2019! I lived in Tel-Aviv during my time on aardvark and I did my internship at Beit Dror! Beit Dror is an LGBTQ+ shelter for teenagers under the age of 18 who […]