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Pre-Ulpan (Mandatory to those with a low level of Hebrew, available in the summer session only) A month and a half of extensive Hebrew Ulpan studies in the Garin Tzabar Village in Ra'anana. The participants come from all around the world, and are accompanied by social counselors. In the afternoons, there are social activities and volunteering.
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.
Between 1948 and 1952, about 700,000 immigrants arrived in the new state. The Jewish Agency helped these immigrants acclimate to Israel and begin to build new lives. It established schools to teach them Hebrew, beginning with Ulpan Etzion in 1949. [66] (The first student to register for Ulpan Etzion was Ephraim Kishon. [67]) It also provided ...
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Hebrew: רענן אלכסנדרוביץ', born August 29, 1969, Jerusalem, Israel) is a director, screenwriter and editor. He is known for the documentary The Law in These Parts (2011), for which he received the Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival , a Peabody award , and numerous other prizes.