It’s story time at Lashon Academy Charter School, and Hebrew teacher Ravit Shemesh is reading a Hebrew-language picture book about a grandmother to a group of students sitting at her feet on the ...

The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The enforcement of Hebrew as a compulsory spoken language is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment, even in Palestine. Two young men, Berditchevski and Katz, members of the “Gdud Maginei Ha ‘Safa” ...

Israeli scholarship is widely cited the world over. But if state linguists have their way, much of that research will become a whole lot less accessible to those who don’t speak Hebrew. The Academy of ...

Nearly all Hebrew words are either masculine or feminine. A student and professor have created a third way for people who do not identify as either. (JTA) — Some college students who think about ...

Israeli linguist Ghil’ad Zuckerman, whose new Hebrew book, “Hebrew as Myth,” will appear this coming year, thinks I am wrong to call “denigrating” Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz’s use of the term ...

Hebrew was spoken alongside Aramaic during the days of the Second Temple, and ceased to be spoken around the beginning of the third century C.E. Its status in the period between the destruction of the ...