This story is sponsored by the Avi Chai Foundation. Teaching students Hebrew is a top priority for the Chicago-area day school Hillel Torah. So to ensure it has a ready supply of native Hebrew ...

If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound? And more importantly, if a man learns a language and doesn’t know how to talk dirty in that language, does he ...

Timnit Ftwi, a 23-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker in Israel, speaks fluent Hebrew, which she picked up through her job as a house cleaner. But up until recently, she could hardly read or write in the ...