It’s 10 a.m. Friday morning at Temple Beth Sholom’s preschool, and teacher Diane Acquistapace is helping a dozen toddlers get ready for Shabbat. “You put your challah in, you put your challah out, you ...
(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, ...
The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...
As a newly observant Jew, Mark Wilcox realized he’s got a problem. He can’t read Hebrew. Wilcox, 38, an Olney, Md., business consultant, and his wife decided to become Orthodox two years ago. But ...
They begin by learning the Aleph Bet. Aleph, bet, vet. Aleph, bet, vet. Gimmel, dalet, hay. Gimmel, dalet, hay. It’s the Hebrew version of the Alphabet Song, and it’s familiar to almost every ...
“It’s no sin to be a lefty and she’s always right,” instructs Rabbi Elie Stern of Westwood Kehilla in West Los Angeles. His adult students follow along in their textbooks, nodding and mumbling to ...
The textbook for the intensive Hebrew class that I enrolled in this past summer was called “Hebrew from Scratch”. Which didn’t technically apply to my situation, at age 48, in the Beginner Aleph ...
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