(JTA) In April, the language-learning app Duolingo added its 40th language to its program arsenal: Yiddish. A couple of decades ago, it would have been unthinkable for a mainstream non-Jewish language ...

The minor in Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture aims to bring students to an advanced level of proficiency in Hebrew and offer a strong background in Hebrew culture and literature. Students in ...

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This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...

Welcome to Mother Tongues: Jewish Languages Across Time and Place, where we’ll explore four essential Jewish languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Aramaic. Sign up for this four-part series to ...

The appeal to Maxim Gorki that he should intervene with the Soviet authorities to obtain cessation of the persecution of the Hebrew language in Soviet Russia, has been submitted to the great Russian ...

The bad news: Your Hebrew vocabulary deficit probably grew by 10 words this month, as the Academy of the Hebrew Language added 10 words to the official Hebrew lexicon. The good news is that one of the ...

One of Rabbi Dr. Shai Held’s many gifts is his ability to find profundity in apparently simple ideas — profundity that was there all along, in ideas that genuinely are simple with their directness and ...

The Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture Program welcomes distinguished artists and guest speakers to our classes throughout the year, representing a diverse array of professions and expertise. For ...

This charming and important memoir starts with two mothers in a cold London playground talking about where to send their young children to school. One mother says she would like her son to go to a ...