Jewish Education
With concerts, sing-alongs, lectures and films, the festival celebrates the love of the language.
Report from Prizmah shows that once families are in the door, most want to stay in the Jewish day school system.
Sharona Israeli-Roth, vice president of online education for the Israeli-American Council, said the OFEK Hub’s goal is “making sure that everyone anywhere will be able to afford and experience Hebrew education, Jewish education in their household.”
Among the subjects tested were Sabbath laws, marriage and divorce, family purity and mourning.
More than 300 day and overnight camps provide nearly 180,000 campers and young staff with a meaningful connection to Judaism each summer.
The lead projectile bears the Greek inscription, “Victory for Heracles and Hauron.”
Arrested in 1944 for making bombs, Ornan was detained in British prison camps in Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya until Israel achieved independence.
As many as 200 million people have “significant Jewish ancestry.”
“We’re the people of the book, but we don’t read our own book,” says Robert Weinger, a master shofar-blower who lives in Israel.
The coin, minted in 69 C.E. during the Great Jewish Revolt against Rome, is valued at more than $1 million • “This coin is evidence of the eternal bond between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel,” says Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
Many institutions have been closed since the war began in February.
