When the 34-year-old Palestinian teacher effortlessly switched from Arabic to Hebrew, none of his students showed any hint of mistrust. Instead, the classroom buzzed in admiration for his deep ...

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 ...

Hebrew and Israel First Steps (Ivrit ve'Yisrael Tza'adim Rishonim is subtitled "A perfect textbook for those who love both." Nothing, of course, is perfect, but Dr. Irit Amit-Cohen and Noga Perry's ...

If you ask me (and, if I had to guess, many of my peers), there is nothing worse than Hebrew school. In the world of fun Jewish activities, with Yom Kippur fasting being a one and hooking up with ...

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