Examining the immigrant experience through the eyes of multiethnic students in a language immersion class in Tel Aviv, engrossing docu "The Hebrew Lesson" brings a fresh take on how non-natives cope ...

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 ...

After 6 1/2 hours of instruction, the Hebrew class was over, and the teacher threw up his arms. “I taught you how to read,” he exulted. “I am finished.” Rabbi Noah Golinkin had wrapped up another ...

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Mother and daughter stood next to one another at the bimah as part of a jubilant bat mitzvah ceremony. Then, one of them took a deep breath and began to recite verses from that week’s Torah portion.

This week's hounds were captured by a one-woman show about her first trip to Israel, a collection of paintings which take the viewer on an ethnic grocery store adventure, and a folk duo which favors ...

Ben Gamla Charter School, in Hollywood, Fla., was ordered this week by Broward School Board to stop teaching Hebrew amid concerns that the lessons violated the constitutional separation of government ...