Denise Lockett, an African American and Catholic grandmother, sat in the lobby of a District charter school waiting to deliver lunch to her 9-year-old grandson. “I’m Kobe’s savta,” she said with a ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was a dead language. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, this liturgical language made a comeback as a modern tongue. Its revival is unprecedented, said Nancy Berg, a ...

Black and Latino parents in upper Manhattan are banking on Hebrew to give their little ones extra chutzpah in the classroom — and, perhaps, create a new generation of Israel supporters. Hundreds of ...

How the scroll may have originally looked – revealed by imaging software. (Seth Parker-University of Kentucky, Ehud Shor, Jerusalem) A burned 1,500-year-old Hebrew scroll found on the shore of the ...

Language is one of the most powerful links between past and present, carrying culture, tradition, and history across centuries. While thousands of languages have disappeared, some have endured for ...

Why Learn Hebrew at CU Boulder? Hebrew is one the oldest, continually used languages. It is the language of the ancient Israelites and the Hebrew Bible or The Old Testament from before the Common Era, ...

(JTA) — On a bright autumn morning, Hebrew songs and phrases fill the sun-drenched, freshly painted blue and white classrooms of New York’s Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School. A group of ...

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 ...

GAZA (Reuters) – Islamist Hamas authorities plan to expand Hebrew-language classes in the Gaza Strip’s high schools to help Palestinians know their enemy in times of conflict with Israel. Far from a ...