A mega Hebrew literacy campaign to "win back the hearts of North American Jews" has begun, featuring month-long Hebrew classes - at no charge. The campaign is run by the New York-based National Jewish ...

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 ...

Rabbi Noah Golinkin, the former spiritual leader of a Columbia synagogue who earned a national reputation for programs that taught Hebrew literacy to more than 150,000 Jewish adults, died Thursday at ...

When Myra Clark-Siegel, wife of Israeli Consulate General David Siegel, packed their things for their Los Angeles mission, she sacrificed a few items. But she couldn’t leave behind her children’s ...

My mom regularly e-mails relatives and friends in Israel, but many must resort to snail-mail letters because they don't know english and my mom can't currently read Hebrew on her system. How could I ...

In the film The Reader, Kate Winslet, playing an SS guard accused of great brutality, says to her meaning-seeking erstwhile partner, “Nothing comes out of the camps.” He wants to have a relationship ...

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