Jerusalem Weekly Letter and Lehitraot
Shalom Parents! The Aardvark Spring Semester has officially come to an end. It is bittersweet for all of us. It has been a wonderful year, but it is sad to see the students leave. Luckily, we still have a few more weeks with our Plus Program students before they head off to work as counselors […]
Tel Aviv Weekly Letter and Lehitraot
Dear parents, The Aardvark Tel Aviv spring semester has reached its end. Yesterday most of the students flew home, others went to visit their families or for a short vacation before making Aliya to Israel, and some went to Jerusalem to prepare for the plus program as Madrichim in summer camps in the USA. It […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem May 17, 2018
Dear Parents, Sadly, our semester is soon coming to an end, and despite us not wanting it to end, soon we will back in our homes outside of Israel. While we are sad, we have very much decided to make the most of every last moment in Israel and on Aardvark. As a result, this […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv May 17, 2018
Dear parents, We are getting closer to the end of the program, and therefore this week was dedicated to activities focused on reflecting on our time here and saying goodbye. After a whole year or semester on Aardvark, we have very much reached the point where everyone feels like family. Living together and gaining so […]
Student of the week – Annabel
G’day everyone! My name is Annabel, and as you all can probably guess by that greeting, I am from Australia, Sydney to be specific. After being brought up surrounded by a vibrant Jewish community and attending Jewish Day school my whole life, it was basically assumed that I would take a gap year in Israel. […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv May 10, 2018
Shalom Dear Parents, I hope this email finds you well. This week Eyal has been leading our Aardvark International trip to Italy, so in his place I’m more than happy to tell you about this week’s highlights. We are getting closer to the end of the year, but we are glad that there are two […]
Italy 2018
Day 1 Dear Parents, Hello from Italy! For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Eyal and I’m the community manager from Aardvark Tel Aviv. I’m leading the Italy trip along with Dorin, an amazing Madricha from Jerusalem. We’ve just finished our first day in Italy. We arrived in Venice at around […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem May 3, 2018
Dear Parents, Well, we have had another full week on Aardvark! At Sunday evening’s apartment meetings, we spoke about the tragedy last week in Israel. Ten Israeli youths, nine girls and a boy from a pre-military academy, were killed after they were carried off by a surge in the Tzafit stream west of the southern part […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv May 3, 2018
Dear parents, It has been another full week packed with activities here on Aardvark Tel Aviv. Here are some of the highlights: On Sunday the Madrichim ran activities with their apartments. In the activity, the students were asked to start thinking about a little project that they would like to do for the closing ceremony of […]
Student of the week – Ben Oken
Hi! My name is Ben Oken and I am from Westlake Village California. I am currently living in Jerusalem in a neighborhood called katamon. Katamon is a quiet place with mostly families but i wouldn’t want to call any other place home. I first heard about Aardvark from my parents who found it, and at […]