Current courses by topic: Language
20 courses in 2 subcategories:
Modern Hebrew (16 courses)
Advanced Conversational Hebrew (summer)
L500S-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/23/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
This course will focus on conversational skills with an attention to improving fluency.
Modern Hebrew I (Spring)
L100B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/09/2013 Location: JCCSF
If you want to learn Hebrew from scratch this is the class for you. Begin with learning how to read, write and pronounce the Hebrew alphabet, the alefbet. Assembling letters into simple words, students will ...
Modern Hebrew I Matinee (Spring)
L150B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/09/2013 Location: JCCSF
If you want to learn Hebrew from scratch this is the class for you. Begin with learning how to read, write and pronounce the Hebrew alphabet, the alefbet. Assembling letters into simple words, students will ...
Modern Hebrew II (Spring)
L200B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/09/2013 Location: JCCSF
Build your vocabulary and learn the basic skills for day-to-day conversation in a program that focuses on hearing and responding in Hebrew. Topics include numbers, colors, simples nouns, essential conversations like time and directions, and ...
Modern Hebrew II Matinee (Spring)
L250B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/09/2013 Location: JCCSF
Build your vocabulary and learn the basic skills for day-to-day conversation in a program that focuses on hearing and responding in Hebrew. Topics include numbers, colors, simples nouns, essential conversations like time and directions, and ...
Modern Hebrew III (Spring)
L300B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/10/2013 Location: JCCSF
This course is for students who already have some reading and writing proficiency. Designed to build on previous knowledge, students improve their ability to read with understanding, increase vocabulary and practice conversations about travel, foods, ...
Modern Hebrew III Matinee (Spring)
L350B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/10/2013 Location: JCCSF
This course is for students who already have some reading and writing proficiency. Designed to build on previous knowledge, students improve their ability to read with understanding, increase vocabulary and practice conversations about travel, foods, ...
Modern Hebrew IV (Spring)
L400B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/11/2013 Location: JCCSF
Increase proficiency by learning more advanced vocabulary and how grammar influences meaning. Word roots (shoreshim), the future tense, verb forms (binyanim), and idiom are topics in this class. Class takes place mostly in spoken Hebrew ...
Modern Hebrew IV Matinee (Spring)
L450B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/10/2013 Location: JCCSF
Increase proficiency by learning more advanced vocabulary and how grammar influences meaning. Word roots (shoreshim), the future tense, verb forms (binyanim), and idiom are topics in this class. Class takes place mostly in spoken Hebrew ...
Modern Hebrew Level A2 (summer)
L105S-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/21/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
Students continue learning Hebrew words and sentences while developing vocabulary, grammar, and basic conversational skills. The instructor will show both patience and sensitivity to the needs of adult learners who have limited time for study.
Modern Hebrew Level A3 (summer)
L150S-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/22/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
Students continue learning Hebrew words and sentences while developing vocabulary, grammar, and basic conversational skills. The instructor will show both patience and sensitivity to the needs of adult learners who have limited time for study.
Modern Hebrew Level B (summer)
L200S-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/22/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
In this continuation of Level B, students build on vocabulary, grammar and basic conversational skills. The instructor will show both patience and sensitivity to the needs of adult learners who have limited time for study.
Modern Hebrew Level C (summer)
L300S-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/21/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
A continuation of the intermediate level, this course takes students to a higher level of conversation and comprehension skills, while further developing an understanding of Hebrew grammar. Prerequisite: Completion of four semesters of Lehrhaus Judaica’s ...
Modern Hebrew Level D (summer)
L400S-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/23/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
This course further expands fluency in Hebrew conversation and comprehension, and is designed for students with a reasonably developed level of modern Hebrew speaking and understanding. It continues building student vocabulary, grammar, and fluency skills. ...
Modern Hebrew Level E (summer)
L405S-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/21/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
This course further expands fluency in Hebrew conversation and comprehension, and is designed for students with a reasonably developed level of modern Hebrew speaking and understanding. It continues building student vocabulary, grammar, and fluency skills ...
Modern Hebrew V (Spring)
L500B-SJ Instructors: Zach Starting: 04/11/2013 Location: JCCSF
Created for students with high-level speaking and writing skills, this course offers an in-depth Hebrew reading and conversation. This class is conducted in Hebrew, with a focus on conversation. Focus on fluency with Israeli newspapers, ...
Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew (4 courses)
Advanced Biblical Hebrew 3: The Mysterious Micah (Spring)
L315-CBI Instructors: Grist Starting: 05/12/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Israel
Of all the minor prophets, Micah is among the earliest, most impressive, and most mysterious. He was a partial contemporary of Isaiah, confronting the gloomy years of the fall of Samaria (722-21 BCE) and the ...
Intermediate Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew 2A (Spring)
L200A-CBI Instructors: Grist Starting: 05/12/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Israel
The third semester of the introductory sequence of Biblical Hebrew grammar, this course covers the more complex features of the language commonly found in Biblical and Siddur (prayerbook) texts. After a brief review of material ...
Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew (summer)
L100B-BA Instructors: Morad Starting: 05/22/2013 Location: Congregation Beth Am
This is a continuation of the fall and spring semesters of Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew class. Students continue to learn Prayerbook vocabulary.
Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew Ulpan
L100U-LJ Instructors: Grist Starting: 06/17/2013 Location: Lehrhaus Judaica
Want to 'read' the Hebrew prayers at High Holiday services? Want to start exploring the Bible in the original Hebrew? Then this course is your first step. Starting with the aleph-bet and vowels, you'll learn ...