The Rosen School of Hebrew Blog

Rishonim

One of the important times in the History of Judaism is the time between the 11th and the 16th, whose…

The Eleven Points- Part 1

On the night between the 5th of October 1946 and the 6th something amazing happened in the land of Israel,…

Different approaches to the state of Israel – Part 1

An essential part of the Israeli high school experience is the study of all the students’ rights and obligations as…

Different approaches to the state of Israel – Part 2

The fourth approach to the state of Israel is for the state to be the state for all Jews around the world-…

Customs for Independence Day – Part One

On May 14th, 1948 the Jewish state was established. Every year ever since on the Hebrew date, the fifth day…

San Remo conference

The San Remo Conference is definitely a hallmark moment in the history of the establishment of the Jewish state. At…

Final Letters and Guttural Letters

The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. Five Hebrew letters are formed differently when they appear as the last letter of…

Paleo-Hebrew alphabet

When we speak about an “alphabet” we indicate a series of characters with phonetic values, which must be compiled to…

The letter Aleph

Aleph is the reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet continued in descended Semitic alphabets as the Syriac…

The Letter Bet

Bet or vet the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet.This letter’s name means “house” in some Semitic languages (Hebrew: בַּיִת, Arabic…