Milken Students to Study Abroad in Israel Despite COVID-19
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will likely keep most Los Angeles high school students home over the next several months, but nearly 70 sophomores from Milken Community School will enjoy a unique, transformative experience because of a longstanding partnership between their school and a study abroad program in Israel.
In the first week of March 2021, 66 tenth-grade students from Milken, a pluralistic high school, will travel to Israel and spend their spring semester at Jewish National Fund-USA’s Alexander Muss High School in Israel.
“We are super excited that this is going to happen,” Limor Dankner, associate head of school for academic affairs and strategic partnerships at Milken Community School, said in an interview. “Kids are going to have a sense of normalcy in a time when they have not had it all year. Parents are willing to overcome their own fears, and it takes a lot of courage to do that, but it speaks to ho