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The growing trend of Hebrew-immersion day camps offer children a chance to learn Hebrew while engaging in summer fun. NEW YORK (JTA) — It used to be that parents who wanted to expose their children to ...

For generations of Jewish kids, Hebrew school has meant three or four, often boring, afternoons a week of classroom lectures and laborious language learning in a set curriculum. But thanks to a ...

Karyn Salkin taught Hebrew school for years. She knows how kids often feel about it. They complain to their parents; they don’t want to go; they hate sitting for a couple more hours after a day in ...

On a warm summer day at a Jewish day camp east of Cleveland, an Israeli counselor instructs his charges in Hebrew to get their water bottles. The kids, none of them fluent Hebrew speakers, strain to ...

THE 15-FOOT python came. So did a 50-year-old snapping turtle and some alligators. Even “Noah” showed up for the great – albeit fake – flood. The JHC Hebrew School in Hicksville kicked off its first ...

In Kayitz Kef, the staff of mostly Israeli counselors speaks only Hebrew to campers six hours a day. English isn’t used unless there’s a safety concern. This story is sponsored by the Steinhardt ...