Germany 2019
Day 1 Dear Parents, Guten Abend aus Berlin! Good evening from Berlin! After a wonderful and exhausting first day in Germany, everyone is back at the hotel, probably already sound asleep as I write this. Our day started at 3:00 am as we headed off to the airport for our early morning flight. Some of […]
Alumni of the Month – Daniel Bard
My name is Daniel Bard, I’m 22 years old from Chevy Chase Maryland. I was on Aardvark Israel in 2016-2017 and am now serving as a combat medic in the 101st IDF paratroopers brigade. After I returned to the United States from Aardvark, I didn’t really feel at home in America and I had already […]
Student of the Week – Jaimi Knep
Hi, my name is Jaimi Knep from Sydney, Australia and I am currently living it up in the most hipster neighbourhood of Florentin, Tel Aviv, whilst on the Spring Semester of Aardvark Israel. I graduated from Moriah College in 2018, a modern orthodox Jewish day school. I grew up surrounded by a loving Jewish community, […]
Italy 2019
Day 1 Dear Parents, We started our day way before the sun came up, heading to the airport for a 5:50 am flight to Venice. Upon landing in Venice, we were energized by our arrival in Italy. Now, usually you don’t think of the taxi to or from the airport as an attraction, but today […]
Student of the Week – Hannah Saban
My name is Hannah Saban, I’m 19 years old and I’m from Atlanta Georgia. This fall I will be attending High Point University in North Carolina and what follows may be the least formal student of the week there ever was, so stick with me (; I was birthed into the world by my beautiful […]
Student of the Week – Liad Zafrani
Hey, my name is Liad Zafrani and I am from Swampscott Massachusetts, a small seaside town next to Salem (the place where they killed the “witches”). In May I’m going back home to college, I plan on attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst honors college, where I intend to major in Political Science and Economics. […]
Student of the Week – Dana Bederson
Hi, my name is Dana Bederson, I’m 20 years old, I’m from Brooklyn New York, and I will be attending Guilford College in Greensboro in the Fall. Judaism has always seemed to be at the center of my life. My parents took my sister and me to synagogue every Friday night and Sunday school every […]
Nepal Cultural Exchange 2019
Day 1 Shalom to everyone! Well, it feels like we have already been going for about 3 days, but the first day of our Nepal Cultural Exchange has finally come to an end! Yesterday we began at 6pm (Israel time), with a pretty easy check-in at Ben Gurion airport. The students had so much time […]
Weekly Updates – Jerusalem January 31, 2019
Shalom Parents & Students, Another busy week has come to an end here on Aardvark Jerusalem and our students are slowly settling into the program’s daily routine. Now it is my pleasure to tell you about some of the highlights from the past week. On Sunday we began the week we the monthly community talk in […]
Student of the Week – Solly Sperber
My name is Solly Sperber and I am a proud member of the British delegation on Aardvark this year. This is my second semester and it has already been incredible after only three and a half weeks. I came back to Israel for my second semester after having spent a week in London where I […]