“There’s actually a cognitive benefit to drawing shapes and images to represent words,” Rabbi Emily Meyer said of her video project. (JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last ...
According to a Pew Research Center survey, only 52% of American Jews can read Hebrew. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute is ...
Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a camp-specific hybrid language register called Camp ...
“We should be training rabbis for the Jewish community that exists,” one rabbinical student wrote in arguing for the policy change. (JTA) — Hebrew College will begin admitting and ordaining rabbinical ...
It was not so long ago that Jewish communities around the world were all able to read the Bible in its original language, a skill connecting a nation spread across the world in the diaspora. However, ...
Shabbat is not merely a day of rest, but the eternal sign of the covenant between God and Israel (Exodus 31:17). Shabbat ...
Can I study abroad as a Hebrew Studies and/or Jewish Studies Major or Minor? Yes! Students in both Jewish Studies and Hebrew Studies are encouraged to study abroad. Jewish Studies is truly an ...
Dr. Howard Tucker, Tzvi Hersh ben Chaim Herzl, passed away on Dec. 22, 2025, at the age of 103. Known around the world as the ...
(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, ...