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When you’re exploring gap year programs for after high school, it can feel like your only real option is going abroad. The idea of living and serving in another country is exciting — but you may also feel there’s important work to do and so much to see right here in the United States.  One of the benefits of a gap year with Tivnu is that you don’t have to choose between a traditional gap year abroad and deep engagement closer to home. Tivnu’s nine-month program is based in Portland, Oregon, where Jewish teens live in community, intern with local nonprofits, and build real skills. Then, after winter break, we travel to Nayarit, Mexico*, for a 12-day service immersion, working on an organic farm and…

Separated from us by only a brick wall, a black fence, and a bulwark of elite education, the folks who sleep on Mass. Ave. benches are just as much my neighbors as my friends down the hall.