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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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Language apps are putting Hebrew school in teens’ back pockets. But do they work?

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 ...
Brandeis University

Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture

Kayitz Kef/Hebrew at Camp gives American Jewish youth the ability to converse in Modern Israeli Hebrew and to own contemporary Israeli culture as part of who they are. Hebrew provides rich and ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Learning Hebrew brought me closer to Judaism — and alienated me from Israel

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 ...