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An ulpan (Hebrew: אולפן), plural ulpanim, is an institute or school for the intensive study of Hebrew. Ulpan is a Hebrew word meaning "studio", "teaching", or "instruction". The ulpan is designed to teach adult immigrants to Israel the basic language skills of conversation, writing, and comprehension.
The name Ulpana was used among the Jewish commentaries on the Bible in the language Aramaic and is cited for example in Targum Onkelos (Onkelos translation) to the Bible parashah “Ki Tissa”, where he translates the verse "And he called it a tent of Meeting" (Book of Exodus 33:7) - "And he called it an Ulpana house", because in this tent the Torah study and its teaching took place, or in ...
Ra'anana (Hebrew: רַעֲנָנָּה, lit."Fresh") is an affluent city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel.It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, c.1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important World War I battle had taken place four years previously.
Ra'anana Park [1] is a public park spanning 200 acres, which serves as the central park of the city of Ra'anana, Israel. Nestled at the western edge of Ahuza Street, on the western border of the city, the park adjoins Kfar Batya and the Lev Hapark neighborhood to the north. To the south and west, it borders the fields between Ra'anana and ...
The initial students came from top universities across North America. [1] In that first year, its faculty included the following rabbis and professors, each teaching one full day each week: Adin Steinsaltz , David Hartman , Eliezer Schweid , Pinchas Hacohen Peli , and Michael Rosenak , with Dov Berkovits [1] and Menachem Froman functioning as ...
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In 1951 she founded the Ulpan Akiva, a residential language school in Netanya, Israel. It was one of the first three ulpanim in Israel. [ 3 ] She spent nearly 50 years directing the school , where Jews and Arabs were encouraged to get to know each other, speak each other's language, and learn about each other's history and culture. [ 4 ]
Yosef Zvi Rimon (born January 18, 1968) is an Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi, author, lecturer and Posek who serves as rabbi of the Gush Etzion Regional Council and the Ashkenazi Synagogue of Alon Shvut Darom. [1] [2] He is Rosh Yeshiva of the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) and a Rosh Kollel at Yeshivat Har Etzion.