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Student Opportunities
One of the most important things for Jewish parents is finding meaningful educational opportunities for our sons and daughters. Below is a menu of offerings for middle-school, high-school, gap-year, and college students.
Middle-School Students
Tikvah offers a range of programs for middle-school students, including online, in-person, and hybrid options.
For 7th & 8th graders in any type of school, Tikvah Online Academy offers enrichment seminars for students interested in deepening their knowledge in Jewish ideas and history, Zionism and Modern Israel, and the American-Jewish experience.
Tikvah Online Academy
For 7th & 8th graders in our partner schools, Truman Scholars engage in high-level seminars that explore the foundational ideas, key texts, and great leaders of American civilization and modern Zionism.
Truman Scholars Program
For 7th & 8th graders in public and independent schools. One-year opportunity to study the great ideas and leaders of Jewish and Western civilization, Zionism, and the heroic story of modern Israel.
Millstone Scholars Program
High-School Students
Tikvah introduces exceptional high-school students to the riches of Jewish civilization, the heroic story of modern Israel, the meaning of America, and the foundational ideas of the West. Through our online seminars, intensive summer programs, and year-long fellowships, we are creating a Tikvah generation of students with moral courage and intellectual confidence. Our mission: to form committed Jews, proud Zionists, and patriotic Americans, ready for the challenges of college and beyond.
For 7th-12th graders in any type of school. Online academy that offers enrichment seminars for students interested in deepening their knowledge in Jewish ideas and history, Zionism and Modern Israel, and the American-Jewish experience.
Tikvah Online Academy
For 9th & 10th graders in any type of school. Fellowship that includes conversations with great leaders, in-person winter retreats, online seminars on foundational texts, and an article-writing workshop, concluding with a summer trip to Israel.
Menachem Begin Scholars Program
For 10th-12th graders in any type of school. Summer institute in Jewish thought, philosophy, economics, literature, Zionism, and politics.
Tikvah Scholars Program
For 11th & 12th graders in any type of school. Exclusive fellowship for top performing Tikvah students to learn and write about important Jewish, Zionist, and American questions and to receive individualized intellectual and college mentorship.
Solomon Fellows Program
Gap-Year Students in Israel
The Tikvah Overseas Student Institute offers dynamic in-person lectures and high-level online seminars for gap-year students in Israel interested in Jewish ideas and their relevance to modern society. It’s an ideal supplement to the gap-year experience: a unique opportunity to discuss contemporary philosophical and policy debates that won’t get covered in the typical yeshiva or seminary curriculum. Participants build great friendships with students at over 20 shana ba’aretz programs looking to explore the burning questions facing the Jewish people today. You’ll become active participants in the Israeli political conversation as prominent lecturers and debate panelists expose you to the burning policy dilemmas of Israeli society. Our rich menu of online seminars provide platforms for you to think deeply about the questions on your mind: affirming Zionism in an era conflicted over nationalism; developing faith in a post-modern world; and bringing traditional Jewish values into a multicultural and sometimes hostile public sphere.
Overview
Application deadline
September 28th, 2023
Program begins
October 27th, 2023
Eligibility
Students spending 2023-2024 on any shana ba’aretz (gap year) program in IsraelSeminar Themes:
- Zionism & Israeli Democracy
- Jews & Politics
- Faith in the Modern World
- Judaism & Contemporary Moral Dilemmas