Ivrit b’Ivrit - Learning Hebrew

I thought this was a site with a lot of soul.  Jewish Oregami.  Make a sevivon, a purim basket, and star of david from the instructions on the site.  The author also provides names of books by this name as well.

http://www.origami-resource-center.com/jewish.html 

 

I don’t have personal experience with this program, but it sounds amazing.  Instead of focusing on the Israel of yesterday, solely on our history. It focuses on the amazing strength, innovation and with pride shares the huge technology story of Israel and its people.  Plenty of history, nature and trips are included as well.  But, its a twist on the traditional trip and my guess is its well worth it.

 

http://www.innovationisrael.org/index.htm 

 

InnovationIsrael is a 4-week summer study program in Israel for American high school students and open to students from all over the world – during July following your sophomore, junior, or senior year. For 30 unforgettable days, you will experience creative academics of your choice at Tel Aviv University, exciting interactive visits at many of the most advanced places of innovation in the world, amazing trips off the beaten path, immersion in Israeli culture, and a life-lasting experience of friendship, fun, and discovery.

As an InnovationIsrael summer program participant, you will meet some of the most creative minds in the world. You will experience firsthand the best of what Israel has to offer. You will get to know the inner workings of cutting edge facilities and interact with inventors,..

Language Door, a company that offers language instruction of many kinds, now has an instructor here in San Diego.  Ami Dalyot is teaching Hebrew for adults in the Mission George Rd location. There is a text and a recommendation of a CD and/or Cassette for practice.

I don’t have any personal experience with this course or the instructor.  But, you can read more on their web site.  Click here.

Contact Ami Dalyot at: 619-462-8155 for more details or to ask him questions about his methodology.  

Class size is small: 2-8 students in a class. 

 

A friend stumbled across this site which offers a variety of great activities - crafts and more for Lag Baomer.  The site is in Hebrew. 

http://kaye7.school.org.il/lagbeomer2.htm#c0 

I ran across this catalog recently, and it has some very inexpensive crafts for toddlers, young kids to do covering all the holidays, and Israeli crafts too for Yom Haatzmaot. I haven’t purchased anything here, but could see these items being useful for party favors, activities for chugim (activities) , etc.

http://www.jewishcrafts.com/Israel.html 

 

 

 

I found this site and really enjoyed their DVD selection - though note that they offer PAL and not just NTSC items. To view them you need a universal or multi-system DVD player.  But, they have some popular American movies for kids like Ice Age and Shrek in Hebrew as well as for girls the fairy tales in hebrew like Cinderella, Snow White, etc. 

http://www.israeliscent.com/

I have started volunteering my time with a group locally trying to build a home away from home for Israelis in San Diego.  The Board is made up of some really wonderful people and we’re working on plans for new programs, events, etc. 

I just completed the web site and we’ve done our best to highlight all current Israeli programming in town.  Visit the site at: http://www.sdisrael.com  

If you’re thinking of moving to San Diego this is a great site to get a feel for what’s happening in town for Israelis.  We hope to have a welcome kit for newcomers shortly and a Directory as well as other offerings. 

This site was created by the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. to share with kids the story of Israel, its languages, currency, geography and food.  There are some nice coloring pages of hebrew letters, a lot of fun animation with really useful facts.  A very current and realistic view of Israel.  I think even young 4-6 yr old kids could enjoy it.  Certainly older kids will gain a lot from it.  There are even a few fun games. 

http://www.israel4kids.org/

This is another online option for Ivrit for adults and children.  I don’t have any experience with this program, but it appears to be a synchronous (live) program like Hebrew Online providing you the opportunity to engage with the professor and other students live during your class.  I really believe this method is ideal.  Seems worth checking out.  The link below takes you to the class information.

http://istudyhebrew.com/index.asp 

  
 

These sites have a ton of music, mp3 files to hear the songs and also lyrics in English and Hebrew.  Not as many pdf downloads for sheet music as is available for other holidays.

http://www.totshabbat.com/Purim-Tu-B-Shvat.html and http://www.hebrewsongs.com/purim.htm  has tons of lyrics in Hebrew

 

This site has a lot of the classics and more. Many songs are available for free as pdfs with either guitar and/or piano sheet music as well as lyrics.  Some lyrics are in Hebrew others just in English.

http://www.totshabbat.com/Passover.html 

There are two programs that are heavily utilized in the United States and the diaspora for Hebrew instruction.  Tal Am is one, the other is Neta.  The Tal Am web site is here: http://www.talam.org/

The program is geared to grades 1st-6th.