The Breadth and Depth of a Jewish Gap Year
If you are considering a gap year in Israel the chances are you already have a fairly strong sense of Jewish identity in one way or another. Taking a gap year with Aardvark Israel will allow you to shape the year into one that not only provides a huge amount of fun, regardless of religious […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem April 27, 2017
Dear Parents, Here are some of this week’s highlights: On Sunday, the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv students were honored to attend a Masa event to mark Yom Hashoah. The first part of the day took place at the education center on Har Herzl. Yad V’shem ran workshops for us and we heard the incredible story […]
Germany 2017
Day 1 On are first day in Germany, we began our visit with a surprise, snow, a very pleasant surprise indeed. While we did not expect it, the students were happy to have a first-hand experience of the European winter. After lunch, the group headed out to begin a tour of the City of Berlin […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem April 20, 2017
Dear Parents, We hope this email finds you well and you all enjoyed the Pesach holiday. While Natali is having fun leading our international trip in Germany, I’m more than happy to share our weekly letter with you This week our schedule was a bit different due to Chag Pesach. We began our weekly routine […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv April 6, 2017
Shalom Parents! Our week is just about to end and Pesach is already here! Yesterday we came back from the north of Israel, The Golan Heights. The tiyul started with an overview of the south of the Golan Heights. Our tour guide, Tuvia Scott, gave us a talk on the work that was carried out […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem March 26, 2017
Dear parents, Here are some of the highlights from the past week. On Sunday, we had a talk from the right-wing representative Ishay Flecher who talked about right wing politics in Israel. In the talk he spoke about the delicate situation with the Palestinians and the Mitnachalim (settlers), as well as the Jewish population that […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv March 23, 2017
Shalom Parents, This week we decided to make some changes. Six students were chosen to replace the madrichim for the entire week. Tali Webber was one of them and she has written a summary of this week’s schedule: “This week started with ‘Changing Hats’ where Noam (Ganz), Uri (Zerejeman), Tess (Bernstein), Noah (Kessler), Sem (Kotek) and myself were selected to act […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem March 19, 2017
Dear Parents and Students, Here are some of the best moments from the past week: It was Purim on Sunday! In the morning we made Hamentashens and went to the nursing home across the street to hand out them out along with some other snacks. We sang Purim songs and had a great time.In the […]
Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv March 16, 2017
Shalom Parents, Last weekend was a very special one. Leading up to and throughout Purim Israel comes to life and is full of people celebrating the most colorful holiday of the year. Customs from all over the world come together to bring Purim to life. Music is everywhere and everyone has fun together! It doesn’t […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem March 9, 2017
Shalom Parents, We hope this email finds you well.This week Natali was on a vacation, so I am more than happy to share our weekly letter with you It was a great week for us and the following events are just some highlights: On Sunday, during apartments meetings, besides cleaning and having an inspection, we […]