It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...
In so many ways, Judaism feels innate. It’s a peoplehood, a culture, a religion, an identity. It’s also a language, according to Sharon Levinson, a Lafayette Hill educator who teaches Hebrew to ...
This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...