The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some Hebrew students face a difficult task: describing themselves or what they are doing, partly due to the language’s strict gender rules. But thanks to a CU Boulder student and an instructor, a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Inside a Hebrew Public school. Shalom, charter school? A nonprofit that launches ...

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 ...

One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

Shalom ברוכים הבאים and welcome to the Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture program at Brandeis! Our program offers close to twenty beginning, intermediate, and advanced level courses to promote ...

If it’s January 12, it must be Hebrew Language Day, organized by the dedicated linguists at Hebrew University’s Academy of the Hebrew Language. The day — which is stretched out for the entire week — ...

We are not told explicitly that Hebrew is the heavenly language but is it implied? We read in Genesis 11 that ‘the whole earth had one language and one speech’. Then they said: ‘Come, let us build ...