Archive for the ‘Israel’ Category

How to improve your Hebrew with the iPhone and iPhone 2.0

If you want to learn or practice Hebrew on the go and are one of the millions who own an iPhone or iPhone 2.0 or are considering getting one, you should know that it can be very beneficial for learning languages, such as Hebrew. Here is a partial list of ways its features can help [...]

Srugim Pilot and the New Immigrant

A new show recently debuted in Israel called “Srugim.” The show, named after the knitted yarmulkes that Religious Nationalists wear in Israel, follows the lives of a group of single friends living in Jerusalem. In the show’s pilot episode, there is a brief scene in which some of the show’s characters interact with an immigrant, [...]

How important is having the right accent when speaking Hebrew?

Israel is a young country (60 years old) that has had a constant influx of immigrants from all over the world since its establishment. In the 1950s and 1960s there was a huge influx of (Mizrachi) Jews moving from surrounding Arab countries to Israel. After the fall of the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of [...]