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 ...

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 ...

It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...

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 ...

(JNS) Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Israeli-American Council (IAC) has been growing an innovative online learning program, the OFEK Hub, to teach Hebrew language, Israeli culture, Jewish history ...

Vardit Ringvald visualizes the acquisition of language as a spiral, not a line. It’s an idea she’s been wrapping herself, and her colleagues, around since she arrived at Brandeis 27 years ago. The ...

Black and Latino parents in upper Manhattan are banking on Hebrew to give their little ones extra chutzpah in the classroom — and, perhaps, create a new generation of Israel supporters. Hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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