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 ...

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This phenomenon shows how, in this moment of crisis and struggle, there is an opportunity to rebuild Jewish identity by ...

Can you read a Hebrew newspaper or order a meal in an Israel restaurant? If you’re like the vast majority of American Jews, the answer is no. “Half of Jews (52%), including 60% of Jews by religion and ...

It’s common for young Jews to study Hebrew until the age of 13 — and then never interact with the language again. Hebrew school students learn the alphabet, but often have little understanding of what ...

As new school year opens, National Library focuses on mid-19th and early 20th century Hebrew learning textbooks that imparted Zionist ideology and served as a pioneer for Hebrew literature in general.

Some parents ask me again and again: “Can my child have a bar mitzvah without learning Hebrew? Hebrew is such a barrier. It takes too much time to learn. They’ll never use it again. I hated learning ...

Reprinted with permission of the author from On Being a Jew (The Johns Hopkins University Press). In this book of dialogues, an older traditionalist Jew, Albert Abbadi, explains Judaism to a young ...

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 ...