It’s 10 a.m. Friday morning at Temple Beth Sholom’s preschool, and teacher Diane Acquistapace is helping a dozen toddlers get ready for Shabbat. “You put your challah in, you put your challah out, you ...

As a newly observant Jew, Mark Wilcox realized he’s got a problem. He can’t read Hebrew. Wilcox, 38, an Olney, Md., business consultant, and his wife decided to become Orthodox two years ago. But ...

Ever since I was a child, I have been terrified of rooms full of children — a strange trait for a Hebrew-school teacher. Yes, I adore kids one-on-one, but large groups of them scare me. I thought this ...

The textbook for the intensive Hebrew class that I enrolled in this past summer was called “Hebrew from Scratch”. Which didn’t technically apply to my situation, at age 48, in the Beginner Aleph ...