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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you want to participate in many aspects of Jewish life — to join in at a Passover seder, or sing Israeli folk songs, or actively take part in a Jewish worship service — you need to be able to say ...
Yale sophomore Selma Abouneameh grew up in Connecticut speaking English at home, not her Palestinian father’s native language of Arabic. But this semester at Yale, she is progressing toward her goal ...
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 ...
Is the English-reading brain somehow different from the Hebrew-reading brain? You might not expect any major differences; after all, both languages are alphabetic and are read more or less ...
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 ...