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Only Half of American Jews Read Hebrew. JLI is Changing That

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

The Hebrew Letters – Into the Kabbalistic World

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Hebrew Immersion Programs Help Young Children Learn Language Fast

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 ...
The Forward

Writing Hebrew letters carefully is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too.

(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, ...
Jewish Journal

English, Hebrew and the brain’s language-reading process

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 ...