Language
Putting conversation first: Jerusalem ulpan founder reflects on 18 years of teaching Hebrew to olim
Ami Steinberger’s Ulpan La-Inyan (ulpan.com) employs 80 to 90 teachers in a variety of time zones, teaching private lessons and group courses to roughly 2,000 students annually.
Banking made more accessible, in every language
Israeli AI English-learning startup Loora raises $22m. in Series B
Should we still learn foreign languages? - opinion
The unexpected benefits of being bilingual - study
Florida research studied between those who speak two languages and those who speak one and found that the bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant info
Israeli school teaches English through hands-on art
Experimenting with new things was the approach chosen by Oshrit Mor, coordinator of AMIT Hammer’s English program and its Mofet program for gifted students.
How do cities, countries get their nicknames? - explainer
Let’s take a little geographical galavant and see how certain cities came by their metropolitan monikers.
Dozens of interpreters assisting Israeli citizens, residents to overcome language barrier
The Emergency Interpreting Call Center at Bar-Ilan University is providing language interpreting in 10 languages.
Getting justice in Tiberias over a law and bad English - comment
A billboard advertising to English-speaking tourists in Tiberias was filled with mistakes, and the "caretaker mayor" said they would look into if it was incorrect.
California Jewish teen helping Spanish-speaking learners become teachers
Some immigrants, especially recent arrivals, find that integrating linguistically, culturally and socially is almost beyond their reach.
Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, as new NYC exhibit shows it gave a new nest to live - opinion
At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.
NYT op-ed: Hebrew symbolizes 'far-right Israeli militarism'
Israel's official X account called the writer who bashed Hebrew "Meshuggeneh [crazy person]."
Meta releases AI model for translating speech between dozens of languages
The world's biggest social media company has released a flurry of mostly free AI models this year, including a large language model called Llama
How does bilingualism impact memory? - study
Bilingual people had a harder time identifying images attached to a word with homophones in both their spoken languages.
