The Rosen School of Hebrew Blog

The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. Five Hebrew letters are formed differently when they appear as the last letter of a word. These forms are called “sofit”(final) forms. The five letters sound…

When we speak about an “alphabet” we indicate a series of characters with phonetic values, which must be compiled to form words. Not so with Egyptian and Mesopotamian writing. For those people,…

Aleph is the reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet continued in descended Semitic alphabets as the Syriac ‘Ālaphܐ, Hebrew Aleph א, and Arabic Alif. Aleph is the reconstructed name of the first…

Bet or vet the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet.This letter’s name means “house” in some Semitic languages (Hebrew: בַּיִת, Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu).The letter is a picture of a nomadic tent such as…

Shin (Hebrew: שין) is the twenty-first letter in many Semitic languages , including Phoenician‎, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic. The Hebrew letter represents two different phonemes: ‘s’ and ‘sh’. The two are distinguished by…

If you would ask every kid or adult in Israel who is Miriam Ruth(Hebrew: מרים רות), I am not sure that everyone will remember exactly what she has done in her life…

One of the most beautiful Hebrew stories for children in Israel is called a flat to rent (Hebrew: דירה להשכיר-dirah lehaskir). This book was written by the hands of Leah Goldberg, who was…

Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael). The word Aliyah is derived from the verb “laalot” which means “to go up”, or “to ascend” in a…

A high percentage of the Israeli population are families with young kids, and with the huge amount of חגים and days when there is no school, parents see themselves very often in…

Hollywood! Land of lights, autographs, creativity and stars. Before we begin, let us teach you a word or two, after all we are a school to learn Hebrew, aren’t we? So, star…