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Hebrew  learning  in  synagogues:   A  call  for  change

9/18/2023

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Full article in eJewishPhilanthropy.com, August 31, 2023. [Below includes just the first and last paragraphs]
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/hebrew-learning-in-synagogues-a-call-for-change/
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No need to go running for the ice buckets, but I’m officially throwing out a challenge to all involved in synagogue/part-time Jewish education to lower the emphasis on, and decrease the amount of time devoted to Hebrew decoding. We are a quarter of the way into the 21st century, but still holding onto a last-century Hebrew-learning goal — the fluent and accurate “reading” of Hebrew prayers. No, I’m not suggesting that we stop teaching the Alef-Bet, nor Hebrew decoding skills. Rather, I am challenging us to expand our Hebrew learning goals...

To finish reading the full challenge to synagogues, click on the PDF at the bottom of this blog.

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Rabbi Andrew Ergas, director of Hebrew at the Center, took the theme from the article above one step further in his own eJP opinion piece the next week: 
​https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/its-time-for-teshuva-for-hebrew-education/. His words can inspire us to consider how else we can be connecting our learners to Hebrew, whether within or beyond our doors.

hebrew_-_a_call_for_change_moskowitz.pdf
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