Rachel Jackson doesn’t remember learning Hebrew at the Jewish Community Day School, where she spent kindergarten through eighth grade, but something must have stuck: She’s now among the top ...

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It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...

Some 1,400 students are studying Hebrew nationwide in public schools. About half are in the Chicago area. DEERFIELD, Ill. (JTA) — Nathan Rosen’s favorite day in Hebrew class is culture day. Every ...

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 ...

The Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture offers online asynchronous classes to Hebrew language learners and Hebrew teachers through Brandeis University. At Brandeis, you will ...

Introductory course develops skills of reading, speaking, comprehension, and writing through various techniques, with an emphasis on a solid grammatical basis and awareness of idiomatic usage of the ...

(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 ...

Vardit Ringvald visualizes the acquisition of language as a spiral, not a line. It’s an idea she’s been wrapping herself, and her colleagues, around since she arrived at Brandeis 27 years ago. The ...

When the 34-year-old Palestinian teacher effortlessly switched from Arabic to Hebrew, none of his students showed any hint of mistrust. Instead, the classroom buzzed in admiration for his deep ...

Black and Latino parents in upper Manhattan are banking on Hebrew to give their little ones extra chutzpah in the classroom — and, perhaps, create a new generation of Israel supporters. Hundreds of ...