Ever since I was a child, I have been terrified of rooms full of children — a strange trait for a Hebrew-school teacher. Yes, I adore kids one-on-one, but large groups of them scare me. I thought this ...

In “Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed” (Six Gallery Press), writer Joshua Cohen, a literary critic for the Forward, and artist Michael Hafftka reinterpret the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hollywood, Fla. — As a group of boys in the Ben Gamla Charter School here walked through the corridors to their next class, some wore yarmulkes as well as tzitzit that hung out under their shirts. On ...

Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize Anthropomorphism is an “utterly charming linchpin of the human mind,” contends animal cognition ...