Z'man lachzor lakitah! A growing number of Portland-area children learning Hebrew know what that means: It's back-to-school time! Time to sing, speak, play games and write in Hebrew. Jewish educator ...

Denise Lockett, an African American and Catholic grandmother, sat in the lobby of a District charter school waiting to deliver lunch to her 9-year-old grandson. “I’m Kobe’s savta,” she said with a ...

It’s common for young Jews to study Hebrew until the age of 13 — and then never interact with the language again. Hebrew school students learn the alphabet, but often have little understanding of what ...

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 ...

Dr. Gila Azrad serves as Department Chair at Pressman Academy while maintaining an active presence in higher education, where she trains educators at universities across the globe. A graduate of ...

Abigail Lapins relocated to the Chicago area for high school from Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she had been one of the few Jewish students in her school. At her new public schools–Stevenson in ...

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 ...

The Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture at Brandeis University and the Hebrew Olympiad at Tel Aviv University are pleased to announce the second year of their collaboration.

(JNS) Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Israeli-American Council (IAC) has been growing an innovative online learning program, the OFEK Hub, to teach Hebrew language, Israeli culture, Jewish history ...

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