לקריאת המאמר המלא בעברית, כולל ראיון עם הסטודנט, לחצו כאן The Hebrew Olympiad is an international competition launched in 2021 by Tel Aviv University’s Department of Hebrew language, under the leadership of Dr. Einat Gonen, with support from several Israeli high-tech companies in 2021. Middle- and high-school students compete to demonstrate

Where do we draw the line between teaching Hebrew language and teaching content IN the Hebrew language?  For many legacy Jewish day schools, there is a long, proud history of teaching Judaic Studies in Hebrew – Ivrit B’Ivrit.  Jewish schools aspire for students to gain fluency in Hebrew, but not at

The Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy a Zionist Modern Orthodox Gan through 12th Grade Yeshiva in Rockville, Maryland, has been considering administering AVANT Assessments for a long time, at least 7 or 8 years. It has been a long journey, and this is the year that Berman will finally get on

Almost 11 months ago our world turned upside down, when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th. This attack – and the subsequent wars with Hamas and Hezbollah feels personal. While still needing to remain composed, empathetic, and charismatic, for Israeli teachers at Jewish schools in the Diaspora, this past school year was a

Amid an insidious war, with so many yeshivot and day schools cancelling their Capstone Trips to Israel, Member School Highlight recently caught up with Krieger Schechter’s K-8 Hebrew Department Chair, Lilach Arie, and Head of School, Rabbi Moshe Schwartz, to hear about their once-in-a-lifetime experiences in Israel, with their 8th grade

The Pacific Northwest is a vast geographical region, with pockets of thriving Jewish life. Each of the twelve Jewish day schools and Yeshivot, located in the major cities of Oregon, Washington State, and Vancouver are distinctive. What works at one school might not apply at another school, yet all are working

Never in the history of the Modern State of Israel have Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut been so fraught as this year. How to commemorate and then celebrate when never have so many civilians lost their lives to terrorism, nor have so many soldiers been lost in the fight against terrorism?