This study explored an essential question, "What does the lived experience of students in the Tiferet program mean for them and others?" By exploring the background, implementation, and lived-experiences of two academic-year sophomore cohorts from Milken Community High School in Los Angeles as they lived and participated in a semester study abroad program at the Alexander Muss Institute of Israel Education in Hod HaSharon, Israel, the study shows the impact-of that experience on the students in the program and the school culture at large. The study engaged in a description of the program’s development and evaluation of the lived-experiences as they were reported by students and parents through surveys and video interviews and observed by the researchers. By using a mixed-genre approach and a media-enhanced web site, this study created a sense of the experience of living in Israel for one semester of the sophomore year.
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