admin | September 16, 2022
Headline in the Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, on Sept. 13, 2022. Headline is translated as "Core studies paid the price of the (politcal) agreement" In Israel, both state and religious schools must teach core subjects such as math and science in order to be eligible for governmental funding.Failure to do so will greatly limit their financial assistance
admin | September 6, 2022
After the summer, a new edition of Modern Hebrew classes begins at the Three Cultures Foundation, the only institution in Seville that teaches this language. On this occasion, a full course format will be introduced from October to June with four levels: Hebrew 1, Hebrew 2, Hebrew 3 and Hebrew 4.
admin | September 6, 2022
Ken Ireland (Ken was Ivy League and Jesuit trained, and for some years a member of the Society of Jesus. He currently lives in Dharamshala. Kens a long time Zen practitioner and a friend
admin | September 6, 2022
(JNS) The Qumran caves in the Judean Desert have continued to yield amazing and unexpected treasures. To date, the following have been discovered: 1) The Dead Sea Scrolls, 2,000-year-old parchments containing most of the Hebrew Bible, 2) spices used in the making of Temple incense, 3) a jar of congealed but still viscous oil and 4) scrolls that describe the rules of a Jewish community that lived in the area, along with a great deal more. Hundreds of caves in the area have been surveyed.
admin | September 6, 2022
Shalev Levi fears heaven more than he fears Earth. He is a Haredi one of the God-fearing, as strictly Orthodox Jews are called in Hebrew and he has just checked in at Tel Avivs Ben Gurion airport, en route to Moldova, to then cross by road to Uman, in central Ukraine. There he will join more than a thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews who are already in the city to fulfill the annual tradition, started two centuries ago, of celebrating the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, at the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement
admin | September 6, 2022
Governor Tom Wolf announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has awarded $4.2 million in Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) funding to dozens of nonprofits located in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvanias diverse bounty of cultures are too often the targets of hate crimes, said Gov
admin | September 6, 2022
Hackers leaked on Monday the private information of 30,000 Israeli teachers and students and are putting records of an additional three million up for sale. The group, which goes by the moniker The Generous Thief, posted to its Telegram channel files containing first and last names, ID numbers, birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and more
admin | September 6, 2022
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Displaying his congregations new Torah scroll, Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid takes great care to move it with reverence, to ease it open delicately, to keep it safe and secure. He points out the expert level of work that went into copying each of the 304,805 Hebrew characters that make up the text, the months it took a scribe to do the lettering by hand.
admin | September 6, 2022
Palestinian and Jewish women learn each others' native languages at Spoken Jerusalem-ese, a group that organizes conversation circles and field trips. Photo by Lior Urian By Eetta Prince-GibsonSeptember 01, 2022 Israeli public schools require students to study Arabic, but the instruction is often either poor or doesnt stick, and most Jews retain none or very little of it.
admin | September 6, 2022
I'm always a sucker for playing the name game, but my susceptibility to it skyrockets when I'm actually pregnant. As someone who has always wanted a big family, that has turned out to be pretty often
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