Despite years of Jewish education, countless individuals find themselves unable to speak Hebrew with any real confidence. Over and over, I hear the same sentiment: “I spent 12 years in Jewish school, ...
An ulpan, “Israel’s mainstay of intensive Hebrew instruction,” first arrived at the University of San Francisco in 1998, ...
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This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...
From its humble beginning running small courses through the Jewish Agency, to becoming the biggest online Hebrew school in the world, teaching Hebrew in over 150 countries, the Rosen School, powered ...
We are lucky to live in an age when we can get around in Israel fairly easily without being fluent at speaking Hebrew. Many Israelis speak fluent English, and Google Translate is there for us when ...
It was the “Ceasefire Now” poster in Yiddish that was my breaking point. A friend had shared it in her Instagram story, emphasizing the importance of us Jews reclaiming Yiddish as a protest against ...
It might mean a more honest engagement with Israeli politics as they truly are, rather than how they are presented abroad to English-speakers. Speaking to the media in the United States before and ...
TEL AVIV — The texts, written on metal grates, stone walls and neon signs, sometimes disappear from one class to the next. The themes are pluralism, economic justice and the Israeli-Palestinian ...