The five-week Semitic Sisters class is funded by the university's Faculty Dialogue Innovation Fund, designed to promote dialogue across differences ...

Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Boston, and Hollywood, Florida, the festival spotlights ...

Introductory course develops skills of reading, speaking, comprehension, and writing through various techniques, with an emphasis on a solid grammatical basis and awareness of idiomatic usage of the ...

For students with no previous knowledge and those with a minimal background. Intensive training in the basics of Hebrew grammar, listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Usually ...

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 ...

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 ...

“A few days ago I was walking in Jerusalem, and in one alley . . . I sensed, there was, the smell of wet fabrics after an ironing,” the Israeli novelist Amos Oz once said in an interview. It was “a ...