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Celebrating life at Israel’s luxurious desert retreat - opinion

Six Senses Shaharut, located in the Arava desert, became the perfect setting to celebrate survival, breathe deeply again, and appreciate the rare gift of simply being here.

Breakfast overlooking the wadi at Six Senses Shaharut in the Negev.
Residents wave Somali flags as they attend a rally denouncing Israel’s recognition of the breakaway Somaliland region, during a gathering calling for Somalia’s territorial unity, in Mogadishu, Dec. 30.

Somaliland’s lost and forgotten Jews: Inside Horn of Africa's Jewish past - opinion

Yosl Bergner, great painter.

Jerusalem Highlights: January 9-15

Israeli artists Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen are partners in life and in music.

Israeli artists build bridges at Xavier University, Nation’s only Catholic HBCU


US Hebrew school enrollment down by nearly half since 2006 - report

Even as the estimated number of Jewish children in the United States rose by 17% between 2000 and 2020, enrollment in Hebrew schools fell by at least 45% between 2006 and 2020.

Orthodox Jewish children get off a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn in response to a measles outbreak, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, US, April 9, 2019.

Merriam-Webster dictionary names 'Seder' as 'Word of the Day'

Merriam-Webster dictionary explains that Seder is "a transliteration of the Hebrew word sēdher," which means, order.

 SEDER NIGHT is a Roman-style banquet with a focus on wine.

Jewish organizations and leaders, it's time to start tweeting in Hebrew - opinion

Start translating your press releases, hire someone to run your social media in Hebrew and work on your confidence and fluency in Hebrew.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

Hebrew Ulpan teachers across Israel hold strike over low salaries

Hundreds of Ulpan teachers across Israel announced on Sunday morning that they will use their sick days and not come in to teach.

 A CLASSROOM at a Tel Aviv school is empty due to a strike called by the Teachers’ Union.

Israel must consider its future as it loses the narrative - opinion

It is a question of national identity and thinking about who we are and what we want to be, while appreciating where we once were and where we are now today.

 ISRAEL DOES need to figure out what type of country it wants to be but to do that it needs to be able to tell a compelling story to itself and to the world. As of now, everyone seems to have lost the plot.

Archaeologists find Jewish antiques, Hebrew texts in Moroccan synagogue

The Hebrew documents that were found provide insight into the timeline of Jewish history in the region and the history of Morocco, in general.

The main square in Tata, Provinces of Souss-Massa, Morocco.

Meet the new curriculum for teaching Hebrew in Jewish day schools

The elementary school Hebrew studies program has been dominated by the iTaLAM curriculum, which now has competition.

 CET's Niflaot program

Remembering family names is hard when you have so many - opinion

At the beginning, it was relatively easy. He could handle the names of his two kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren. But it all became a bit more unwieldy.

 Why is Deborah named?

Lauder Employment Center marks one year of providing assistance for immigrants

The Lauder Center for the Advancement of Employmen in the Negev is assisting the new immigrants in finding high quality employment and developing Hebrew language skills,.

 Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder

A song for Adar: The Magical Nights

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