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 ...

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 ...

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 minor in Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture aims to bring students to an advanced level of proficiency in Hebrew and offer a strong background in Hebrew culture and literature. Students in ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, ...

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They need to understand that learning a foreign language is a life-long endeavor. The following is a description of specific outcome goals for each unit we teach during the first semester (5 units - ...

If you’re traveling soon to a place where you don’t know the language well (or at all), then you’ll want to download a language learning app to your smartphone before you embark on your journey. These ...

There are students in Wisconsin learning Hebrew, Ho-Chunk, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Menominee and Ojibwe. But in analyzing the teaching in Wisconsin of what's come to be known as world languages, ...