According to a Pew Research Center survey, only 52% of American Jews can read Hebrew. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Hebrew schools today incorporate a lot of hands-on learning, and several innovative models for Hebrew school have been launched in recent years, including the project-based learning Hebrew school ...

Israeli politicians tells their own people one thing and English-speakers another, writes a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. Then he returned to Israel, and promptly tweeted, “These ...

Valley Beth Shalom’s Etz Chaim Learning Center offers programs such as performing arts. Photo courtesy of Valley Beth Shalom The students are enrolled in VBS’s Etz Chaim Learning Center (ECLC), a ...

It was the “Ceasefire Now” poster in Yiddish that was my breaking point. A friend had shared it in her Instagram story, emphasizing the importance of us Jews reclaiming Yiddish as a protest against ...