What if learning Hebrew in public schools was as common for Jewish students as studying French or Spanish? With that in mind, in April, JUF established a first-of-its-kind foundation focusing ...

As part of her capstone project at her Tel Aviv-area college, graphic artist Michal Shomer revamped the Hebrew alphabet — adding a dozen new letters to make the 3,000-year-old language more inclusive ...

(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, ...

As a newly observant Jew, Mark Wilcox realized he’s got a problem. He can’t read Hebrew. Wilcox, 38, an Olney, Md., business consultant, and his wife decided to become Orthodox two years ago. But ...

The Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture aims to transform Hebrew teaching and learning on an international scale. Izzy Pludwinski's Brush Aleph-bet, 2007, "The Beauty of the ...

Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize Anthropomorphism is an “utterly charming linchpin of the human mind,” contends animal cognition ...

“It’s no sin to be a lefty and she’s always right,” instructs Rabbi Elie Stern of Westwood Kehilla in West Los Angeles. His adult students follow along in their textbooks, nodding and mumbling to ...