I’m in New York City for the next three weeks.
On one stretch, between my office on 35th to the bus on 42nd, I hear not one - not two - but three Hebrew conversations.
I get on the bus, there’s a six pack of hard lemonade in my seat; former passenger leftovers. I drop everything and [...]
I went for an interview today for an internship possibility for my conflict management course. Details about the interview and the internship itself aside… I walked away from the experience with a totally separate outlook.
After we established that I could give the internship a shot - it’s an intense task, in short organizing mediators and [...]
Isn’t it kind of funny that different cultures - aside from having different foods, traditions and rituals - also have different spam?
Once in a while I glance over my spam folder and usually about 40% of the subject lines are in Hebrew. The Israeli spam is also different because it seems to cover a wider [...]
In the past week I have read articles and received emails concerning the strike-affected academic schedule and peppered among all of them is the word בכיר (bachir), meaning ’senior’, as in ’senior professor’.
Only senior professors are striking, because they are the ones being affected by the paycheck problems. Other professors get paid according to a [...]
In the past week I have read articles and received emails concerning the strike-affected academic schedule and peppered among all of them is the word בכיר (bachir), meaning ’senior’, as in ’senior professor’.
Only senior professors are striking, because they are the ones being affected by the paycheck problems. Other professors get paid according to a [...]
I have good days and bad days. Lately they’ve been bad, but today is alright. I’m referring specifically to that still-beating juk I call: “speaking Hebrew without a complex.”
I made a pact with myself last week to only email my Bar Ilan professors in Hebrew from now on. Writing in Hebrew has never been a [...]
I just came across the website of the National Jewish Outreach Program, which I’ve never heard of before. It seems like a great resource though, for North American Jews who want to become more affiliated and educated in their Judaism.
What caught my eye, though, was this: Read Hebrew America/Canada. The free Hebrew reading course is [...]