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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 ...

The Hebrew Language and Literature Program enables students to function in the Hebrew language at all levels and in all skills. In terms of both the means and the goal of the program, a special ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bi-monthly sessions for Hebrew teachers from around the world, in which participants learn from experts in the field of Second Language Acquisition and then tie into methodologies through group ...

A study of Hebrew grammar's noun genders was flagged as "woke" in Senator Cruz's new database of federal grants, one of seven Israel-linked projects targeted despite his strong support for Israel. A ...

“From the moment I arrived in Israel, I hated the people who forced me to speak Hebrew,” wrote Aharon Appelfeld in his memoir, “The Story of a Life.” Appelfeld’s mother tongue was German. “The effort ...

Hamas has targeted many Israelis with a spate of threatening Hebrew-language text messages. But one recipient — Elizabeth Tsurkov, who works for the Israeli NGO Hotline for Refugees and Migrants — is ...

The Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy, a co-educational Jewish day school, is on a 17-acre campus at 270 Lake Ave. Approximately 230 students are enrolled at the school. The school offers a hands ...

The term ‘lingua franca’ literally means the language of the Franks. This expression was one that all people in the Middle Ages used to describe Europeans. The larger, less literal meaning of the term ...