The elementary school, which grabbed headlines in 2013 when the city Department of Education gave it an “F” grade, earned high marks in the most recent round of state tests. NEW YORK (JTA) — The ...

Black and Latino parents in upper Manhattan are banking on Hebrew to give their little ones extra chutzpah in the classroom — and, perhaps, create a new generation of Israel supporters. Hundreds of ...

On a bright autumn morning, Hebrew songs and phrases fill the sun-drenched, freshly painted blue and white classrooms of New York’s Harlem Hebrew Language Academy Charter School. A group of ...

The Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy, a co-educational Jewish day school, is on a 17-acre campus at 270 Lake Ave. Approximately 230 students are enrolled at the school. The school offers a hands ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. The Hebrew ...

The Hebrew Language Academy Charter School (HLA) is now officially open — in a yeshiva. HLA, which is a public school receiving tax dollars as well as private funding, is operating on the first floor ...

Eighth graders at the Hebrew Language Academy in Brooklyn are headed to Israel for a 10-day trip. But this is not your typical Jewish identity-building experience. NEW YORK (JTA) — On her first trip ...

Students at the Hebrew Language Academy in Brooklyn and Hatikvah International Academy in East Brunswick, NJ, during their trip to Israel. Students from the second graduating class of the Hebrew ...

For example, Harlem Hebrew launched this year with a reading specialist and English-as-a-second-language specialist on staff, something the Brooklyn academy did not add until later. Another ...

When Lashon Academy opens its doors this fall, its students will be taught to read and write in both English and Hebrew — a first for a public school in Los Angeles. But the approval of the charter ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A new Hebrew language public charter school in Washington raises the same questions facing other such schools around the country: How do you teach Hebrew without teaching Judaism?

A presentation to put a Hebrew language charter school in Harlem was met with fierce resistance from local officials and residents, who want the school to move elsewhere. Harlem Hebrew, modeled after ...