{"id":12580,"date":"2019-01-07T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?p=12580"},"modified":"2019-01-07T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:19:34","slug":"exploring-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/2019\/01\/07\/exploring-hebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Hebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October &#8211;<\/strong> The Hebrew program hosted a workshop that focused on the Relationship between Islamic and Jewish Music through History. Students from various\u00a0language\u00a0programs attended this event. The presenter, an Israeli musician Tamr Machnai used a well\u00a0prepared power point with authentic resources and\u00a0also\u00a0performed\u00a0to demonstrate her points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-2-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12582 aligncenter\" width=\"272\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-2-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-e1546873806940-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12581  aligncenter\" width=\"204\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-e1546873806940-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-e1546873806940.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-3-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12583 aligncenter\" width=\"265\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-3-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/israeli-event.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>November &#8211;<\/strong> 40 Hebrew students attended three Israelis movies at the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Every year, students from the Hebrew program attend this film festival; this year we visited the Coolidge Corner cinema for three movies.\u00a0One of the\u00a0movies &#8220;In her footsteps&#8221; tied beautifully to the content of LH311 course &#8220;Voices in Israeli Society&#8221; where students could connect the contents of what they learning in class to what they had seen in the film. This event was well attended and brought students from all courses together<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival-2-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12591 aligncenter\" width=\"358\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival-2-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival.jpg\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12590 aligncenter\" width=\"354\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/jewish-film-festival.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>December &#8211;<\/strong> Students in the Hebrew Language Program were invited to Dean Elmore\u2019s house for a Chanukka party and candle lightning. In the last five years students from the Hebrew\u00a0program have\u00a0been\u00a0invited to Dean\u00a0Elmore&#8217;s\u00a0house to celebrate either the\u00a0beginning\u00a0of the year or a holiday. This year, we celebrated the second night of Chanukka with\u00a0lightning\u00a0the candle, songs and an Israeli dinner together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-e1546874284683-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12593  aligncenter\" width=\"257\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-e1546874284683-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-e1546874284683.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-2-e1546874324232-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12594  aligncenter\" width=\"267\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-2-e1546874324232-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-2-e1546874324232.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-3-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\" wp-image-12595 aligncenter\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-3-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2019\/01\/hebrew-event-chanukuh-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October &#8211; The Hebrew program hosted a workshop that focused on the Relationship between Islamic and Jewish Music through History. Students from various\u00a0language\u00a0programs attended this event. The presenter, an Israeli musician Tamr Machnai used a well\u00a0prepared power point with authentic resources and\u00a0also\u00a0performed\u00a0to demonstrate her points. \u00a0\u00a0 November &#8211; 40 Hebrew students attended three Israelis movies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions\/12596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}