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 ...

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 ...

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DEERFIELD, Ill. (JTA) — Nathan Rosen’s favorite day in Hebrew class is culture day. Every Friday, the students learn about one aspect of Israeli culture. Earlier this year Rosen, 13, did a ...

Somebody help me out here. Every time I visit Jewish communities in the United States, I get this weird feeling. It’s like I’m a character in somebody else’s movie. I go from one community to the next ...

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 ...

As a teacher of language and culture, this film spoke to me deeply. It reminded me that what happens in that private living room is exactly what we strive to do in every classroom. We aren’t just ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was a dead language. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, this liturgical language made a comeback as a modern tongue. Its revival is unprecedented, said Nancy Berg, a ...

Every day for about five years, Israeli sisters Reut and Shoham Nistel ran home from school, made themselves sandwiches and plopped down on the couch to watch an Argentine telenovela with Hebrew ...

Last month, for the first time since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, my wife and I drove from our Tel Aviv-area apartment to the border ...