Celebrating birthdays at our Ladies Who Lunch celebration in November 2023. Seated left to right: Ellen Weber, Arlene Lomazoff-Marron. Standing: Carolyn Grandis. Photo courtesy of the author. The ...

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 ...

Despite years of Jewish education, countless individuals find themselves unable to speak Hebrew with any real confidence. Over and over, I hear the same sentiment: “I spent 12 years in Jewish school, ...

Ready for a Hebrew challenge? Join Aline as we dive into Genesis 12:3, learn fun biblical phrases, and uncover cool facts about the Hebrew language, including the story behind Abraham’s name. Can you ...

We are lucky to live in an age when we can get around in Israel fairly easily without being fluent at speaking Hebrew. Many Israelis speak fluent English, and Google Translate is there for us when ...

It might mean a more honest engagement with Israeli politics as they truly are, rather than how they are presented abroad to English-speakers. Speaking to the media in the United States before and ...

It was the “Ceasefire Now” poster in Yiddish that was my breaking point. A friend had shared it in her Instagram story, emphasizing the importance of us Jews reclaiming Yiddish as a protest against ...

An ulpan, “Israel’s mainstay of intensive Hebrew instruction,” first arrived at the University of San Francisco in 1998, demanding serious, focused study. Though the classes were intense, adults and ...