Men's programs
Ohr Somayach:
Language 100- Fundamentals of Hebrew Language- 3 credits
Phonetic reading, basic Hebrew vocabulary and primary writing skills.
Language 101-102- Elementary Modern Hebrew- 3 credits
p/semester
Speaking, reading and comprehension skills. Textbooks and newspapers designed for the novice are utilized. Prerequisite: Basic reading
and vocabulary skills.
Shapell's college for men:
Afternoons at Shapell’s feature a carefully constructed program of Hebrew, Chumash, Halacha, and Jewish thought – in addition to Gemara. Students progress through three levels of Hebrew and four levels of other subjects to receive a well-rounded education. The afternoons also feature our monthly Holocaust Education Program.
Dvar Yerushalayim:
Machon Yaakov:
Though all texts are studied in the original Hebrew and Aramaic languages, many of our students arrive with little or no background in Hebrew. A Hebrew language program is provided to bolster vocabulary and grammar. Most students make tremendous progress in reading skills within a matter of months, if not weeks, as the program is highly intensive and motivating.
Orayta:
Offers a ulpan (practical speaking) to
registered students for the one year gap program.
Aish Hatorah:
4 days a week on the current schedule.
Machon Meir:
WHY ULPAN MEIR?
Machon Meir provides an intensive Ulpan, 4 afternoons a week, throughout the program.
Ulpan Meir is an afternoon – evening men’s Hebrew ulpan. Learn the Hebrew language, Ivrit, in the spirit of love and faith and at your own pace. When a new student joins Ulpan Meir, he is tested and placed in either the top, middle or beginner level in the ulpan.
Each of these is divided into units, and every unit has four subunits: speech, writing, listening and reading. The more Hebrew a student learns, the more units he amasses, and eventually moves to the next level.
Therefore, the three levels mentioned above actually attest to the number and level of the units that each instructor in the Ulpan teaches. The guiding principle that Machon Meir’s Hebrew Ulpan is providing a bridge between the secular and kodesh aspects of the Hebrew language.
Because of this, we provide a place for those asking, “Where can I learn Hebrew with spirituality?” Despite the cultural gaps between Jews who have returned to Israel, what strengthened the bond within the Jewish People and actually became the melting pot of the cultures brought to Israel was the Hebrew language.
Since Hebrew’s rebirth, it has become the common tongue of the Israeli public at large, as opposed to earlier times when Hebrew was only spoken in a Torah setting. Thus, the ulpan’s goal is to provide a bridge between the unique world that the student brings with him to Israel and Israeli society.
The tools we employ to accomplish this mission are the study tools every student needs in the Beit Midrash: namely, humility and fortitude. The fortitude to know and to teach the Holy Tongue thoroughly, and the humility to bring each student not only to desire to learn Ivrit but to turn the Holy Tongue into an inseparable part of his being.
At the end of the course, interested students will have the opportunity to take an Education Ministry Hebrew test in which they will be required to show familiarity with the units learned. Their test grade will constitute a diploma of sorts, by which employers will be able to assess the candidate’s level of Hebrew. Additionally, the grade will help students going on to Hebrew academic programs to prove their expertise in the language.
Ohr Temimim (Chabad in Kfar Chabad)
Toras Dovid:
James Striar School, Yeshiva University:
The program's curriculum emphasizes fundamental proficiency in classical Jewish texts, courses in Hebrew language, Jewish history, Talmud, Hasidism, Ashkenazic and Sephardic laws and customs, mysticism, Jewish ethical movements and Jewish philosophy and thought.
Elementary Biblical Hebrew I, II (HEB 1003, 1004)
3 credits
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew I, II (HEB 1005, 1006)
3 credits
Beginning Hebrew (HEB 1010)
3 credits
Intermediate Hebrew I, II (HEB 1020, 1030)
3 credits
Readings in Biblical Hebrew (HEB 1040)
3 credits
Conversational Hebrew (HEB 1041)
3 credits
Elementary Hebrew II (HEB 1104)
3 credits
Intermediate Hebrew I, II (HEB 1105, 1106)
3 credits
Elementary Hebrew II (HEB 1204)
3 credits
Upper Intermediate Hebrew I, II (HEB 1205, 1206)
3 credits
Advanced Intermediate Hebrew I, II (HEB 1207, 1208)
3 credits
Biblical Hebrew I, II (HEB 1225, 1226)
3 credits
Conversational Hebrew I, II (HEB 1231, 1232)
3 credits
Advanced Hebrew I, II (HEB 1305, 1306)
3 credits
Advanced Hebrew Morphology (HEB 1310)
3 credits
Post-Biblical Hebrew (HEB 1322)
3 credits
Biblical Hebrew, Honors (HEB 1322H)
3 credits
Advanced Conversational Hebrew (HEB 1406)
3 credits
Spoken modern Hebrew, using advanced textbooks and Israeli newspapers
Temimei Darech (Chabad - Sefas):
Has a grammar language program.
Diaspora Yeshiva (Old City)
Has multiple programs for beginners that could include ulpan.
Torah Ohr (Miami)
grammar yes, ulpan nohttp://miamitorah.com/ info@miamitorah.com
And now the men's schools that do not appear to teach Hebrew language/grammar
(the wall of shame)
definitely does not teach it:
Machon Shlomo (Har Nof, Jerusalem)
Tiferes Bochurim (Morristown)
appears to not teach it, contacted for confirmation but did not reply:
Hadar HaTorah (Crown Heights)
Women's schools that teach Hebrew language and grammar:
Machon L'Yahadus, Chabad, women's program
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
3 times a week Hebrew Skills classes. It is broken into 3/4 level classes where the students work in small groups to master and improve their Hebrew skills.
Midreshet Rachel v'Chaya, which is a branch of Darche Noam:
https://darchenoam.org/midreshet-rachel-vchaya/mrc-student-life/
Grammar Classes take place 3 times a week to help students develop the skills for learning Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew. Developing Hebrew language skills is a key element of our textual learning curriculum. The ability to read, translate and understand a Hebrew text enables a student to grapple with Jewish sources independently in the original Hebrew. (Midreshet Rachael v'Chaya)
https://darchenoam.org/midreshet-rachel-vchaya/mrc-student-life/
Stern College Mechina Program:
Introduction to Hebrew provides a primer on Hebrew language—conversational Hebrew as well as biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew—to deepen students' understanding of Jewish textual studies.
https://www.yu.edu/stern/ug/mechina-pathways
Mayanot:
Gain proficiency in Hebrew Language (Ulpan), Talmud, Chassidut (Jewish Mysticism), Philosophy, and Chumash (Bible)
Aish Gesher:
Looking at and understanding the concepts of roots of each
word, understanding prefixes and suffixes, learning vocabulary, and eventually translation. There are different levels.
School for women that appears not to teach it
Neve Yerushalyim: (contacted numerous times for confirmation but did not reply, which is not a good sign)
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch in his educational program as outlined in Horeb lists Hebrew language instruction first among topics:
We may therefore tabulate the general subjects of instruction for Jewish youth as follows:
(I) Hebrew language.
(2) Vernacular.
(3) Torah, Nevi'im and Kethuvim.....(Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, Horeb 552)
Hebrew language is first, before Torah! That makes sense, you can’t study Torah without it. And regarding Hebrew and the local tongue (items 1 and 2) he adds the following note:
Concurrently and as living languages at an early age along with general knowledge and development of the mind.
As living languages. That means speaking, conversation, and composition. Simple line by line translation of a text is not living a language.
Here’s what a baal teshuvah had to say about it:
...I am very grateful for having had the opportunity to learn Hebrew in a professional manner. The first time I picked up a siddur to daven, I understood what I was saying. I can pick up a Hebrew sefer, read it and understand it better than many students who have spent years learning full-time.I think it’s absolutely crazy that baalei teshuvah should skip over acquiring this basic skill. I am convinced that by investing time in learning the language properly, the dividends will be well worth it, and everything else would become much easier.Q: This obviously bothers you very much.A: Yes, it bothers me a great deal. When I was living near Ohr Somayach, I spoke with many baalei teshuvah, and you have no idea of the feelings of inferiority and frustration engendered because of the deficiency in basic Hebrew reading skills. If a Jew can’t pick up a sefer and understand it, he will never feel truly at home in the Orthodox world.I think that people tend to forget that most baalei teshuvah will not remain in yeshiva for years and years. If they are not given the basic tools – such as Hebrew and a solid foundation in Chumash – they will lack the skills necessary to become committed baalei batim later in life, and will never reach their true potential. (Ben Ami as interviewed by Sara Soester. A Jew Returns Home, pp. 75-6.)
To me, the point is unarguable. A recent Living Torah talks about how the Rebbe opposed the whole world method of Hebrew instruction for children. He said instead to teach each letter with its vowels. He said this is the traditional method and it fosters emunah. Something worse than the whole world method takes place today. It's the whole sentence method. When a school for baalei teshuva doesn't teach Hebrew grammar, the student learns whole sentences at a time. The rebbe reads an entire sentence and translates. Usually, he reads the Hebrew so fast the student can't even make out the words. He learns whole sentences at a time.
You have to teach Hebrew grammar, at least once a week.
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