Section archive - Learning Resources

Jacob Richman has launched another Hebrew language learning resource: Hebrew Jokes - Learn Hebrew and Laugh. Reading jokes in Hebrew can be a fun activity in an ulpan or Hebrew class. Even native Hebrew speakers will find jokes on the site that are worth telling their friends.

Ask Herzl, a project of the Israel on Campus Coalition, is a central hub for ready-to-run Israel programming, a venue to share best practices in the form of How-To Guides, and a place to search for the right speakers for Israel events. It also connects students and professionals around the country who are working on similar initiatives and facing similar challenges to collaborate and share ideas and best practices. Users will be able to submit resources for the Israel community to see, share, critique, and “like.”

The Jewish English Lexicon is a collaborative online database of distinctive words that are used in the speech or writing of English-speaking Jews. Think of it as the Wikipedia or Urban Dictionary of Jewish language. The words in this database stem from several languages of the Jewish past and present, including the Hebrew and Aramaic of ancient biblical and rabbinic texts, the Yiddish of centuries of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and the Modern Hebrew of contemporary Israel.

This fall Behrman House will publish a series of essays on Project Based Learning. Their Editorial Staff members will write about ways to introduce this dynamic approach to learning into your own school, and will provide an array of resources to get you started. Topics will include an overview of project-based learning, where to find resources for your classroom, and how to teach Jewish values and even Hebrew using a project approach.