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Israeli filmmaker Yair Qedar, producer of 'Ha'Ivrim.' (Courtesy Yair Qedar)
Posted inCulture

Learn about 20th century’s most iconic Hebrew authors in new series

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 19, 2020February 20, 2020
screenshot of the homepage of jtahebrew.com
Posted inIsrael, U.S., News

JTA launches Hebrew-language website and syndication service

by JTA October 4, 2019
Tova Ricardo was J.'s 2019 summer intern. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inFirst Person

Wandering in translation, learning to speak the language of my people

Tova Ricardo by Tova Ricardo August 12, 2019
Rishik Gandhasri of San Jose aced two Jewish terms — yiddishkeit and keriah — in the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Posted inJewish Life

This San Jose 7th-grader won the National Spelling Bee with Yiddish and Hebrew

Lior Zaltzman by JTA and Lior Zaltzman May 31, 2019June 3, 2019
From the poster for "Days of Atonement" / "Slichot"
Posted inTheater

Hebrew-language play tells a Mizrachi family mystery

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 7, 2019January 9, 2019
Alter, smiling, seated in a sunlit office full of books
Posted inReligion

Robert Alter’s epic, literary one-man Bible

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 15, 2018July 5, 2024
Monica Nainsztein
Posted inNorthern California, News

This Latina Jew puts her skills as a translator to work on behalf of immigrants

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn October 25, 2018
A donation from San Francisco writer and philanthropist Anne Germanacos has saved the city's only ulpan.
Posted inNews

Thanks to her, USF’s once-endangered ulpan will continue

by Rob Gloster August 2, 2018August 7, 2018
Batia Horsky teaching a Hebrew class at Lowell High School in 2013. (Photo/Sam Lauter)
Posted inEducation

For now, Hebrew program back on at Lowell High School

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 12, 2018July 13, 2018
An after-work Hebrew lesson for new emigres in Dimona, 1955 (Photo/Moshe Pridan-National Photo Collection)
Posted inIsrael at 70

‘Yiddish not spoken here’ — but my dad had a different idea

Vavi Toran by Vavi Toran April 5, 2018April 6, 2018

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