Description: In this article Dr Norman Berdichevsky writes that in order to learn from history, we have an obligation to ensure that it is accurate and does not unilaterally glorify or vilify entire nationalities. Read this fascinating story of two kings, one of Denmark, the other of Bulgaria, which gives us an understanding of the actual events.
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Biography:
Norman has 45+ years professional experience as a teacher (Hebrew, English and Geography) at University and secondary school level. He has been lecturer, translator, writer, Jewish educator and community centre events director in U.S., U.K., Denmark and Israel. His 11 years of living in Israel on kibbutzim and in cities has given him much familiarity with Israeli society and culture, and great knowledge of Hebrew. He is the author of 6 books and 350 articles. He and his wife met in Israel as Hebrew translators and interpreters.
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Description: Dr Norman Berdichevsky writes about the Story of Modern Hebrew (Ivrit): How a dormant liturgical language of prayer became a vibrant national vernacular.
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Biography:
Norman has 45+ years professional experience as a teacher (Hebrew, English and Geography) at University and secondary school level. He has been lecturer, translator, writer, Jewish educator and community centre events director in U.S., U.K., Denmark and Israel. His 11 years of living in Israel on kibbutzim and in cities has given him much familiarity with Israeli society and culture, and great knowledge of Hebrew. He is the author of 6 books and 350 articles. He and his wife met in Israel as Hebrew translators and interpreters.
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BIBLICAL AND MODERN HEBREW AS A WAY TO ENHANCE THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF HEBREW - Dr Jo-Ann Myers
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Dr Jo-Ann Myers writes about her Doctoral Research on Hebrew Pedagogy, on the subject of integrating Biblical and Modern Hebrew as a way to enhance the Teaching and learning of Hebrew.
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Biography:
Dr Jo-Ann Myers is Director of Jewish Education at Leo Baeck College. Jo-Ann is the Course Team Leader for the MA in Jewish Educational Leadership and is also responsible for the Certificate in Jewish Education. She teaches on both the MA programme and a module in Jewish Education on the rabbinic programme. She is also responsible for the Lehrhaus, the Leo Baeck College adult learning programme. Jo-Ann is also a Hebrew language specialist and has developed the Eizeh Kef Hebrew programme which is now used in over twenty different communities and schools in the UK, Europe and abroad. She also teaches and conducts Hebrew teacher training in a wide range of contexts. Her Doctorate in Professional Studies focuses on Hebrew pedagogy and the linking between Biblical and Modern Hebrew in teaching and learning.
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Description: Noting that there does not seem to be a visitable heritage and category of Jewish gardens equivalent to those of other world faiths, this writing suggests that the essentially literary nature of the Jewish garden far from prevents its theological re-imagination for the contemporary age. Where modernity’s desolation of the earth has banished even God from Eden’s sanctuary, gardening that offers a horticultural space of refuge and refreshment for God’s creation to flourish in safety and peace is not just a hobby but a messianic vocation.
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Biography:
As well as teaching at Leo Baeck College in the areas of modern Jewish thought and Jewish responses to evil and suffering, Melissa Raphael is Professor Emerita (Jewish Theology) at the University of Gloucestershire and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Chichester. She has been the Sherman Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester; the Hussey Lecturer in the Church and the Arts at the University of Oxford, and the British Government’s Foreign Office delegate to the International Task Force on Holocaust Remembrance and Research.
Professor Raphael is the author of numerous articles and books. Her books include Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996); Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness (Oxford University Press, 1997); The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust (Routledge, 2003); Judaism and the Visual Image: A Jewish Theology of Art (Continuum, 2009), and Religion, Feminism and Idoloclasm: Being and Becoming in the Women’s Liberation Movement (Routledge, 2019).
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