Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a radiant spring morning in Jerusalem, a group of visitors walked into the Cultural and Educational Center at the ...
There isn’t enough demand at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California, known as one of the most successful language learning enterprises in the English-speaking world. (JTA ...
JTA — The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the US military’s elite language school in Monterey, California, has dropped Hebrew from its roster of languages due to low demand. Natela ...
Hebrew was spoken alongside Aramaic during the days of the Second Temple, and ceased to be spoken around the beginning of the third century C.E. Its status in the period between the destruction of the ...
What do these three locales have in common: a remote village in Syria; Sydney, Australia; and the Old City of Jerusalem? The answer is: Aramaic, a dominant language in the ancient world. Now, Jews, ...