2006 - Rothberg International School

Bible Translators
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husband took graduate classes at the
Seminary near Boston, she audited
some of the same classes, including
Biblical Hebrew and Greek. At the RIS
she is taking classes in the morning in
modern and Biblical Hebrew. In the afp
ternoons she looks after her children,
who are learning to speak Hebrew
even more rapidly than their parents
in Israeli nursery schools.
As someone who teaches language,
she was amazed at how the teachers in
the RIS Division of Hebrew Language
Instruction are able to teach Hebrew
no matter what the level of the class
without reverting to English. She has
picked up very good teaching techp
niques that she hopes to incorporate
into her own professional life. Both Gap
rams are looking forward to joining a
bigger team of Bible translators.
“We are really glad to be here,” says
Bayaraa. “We have a saying in Monp
golia – it is better to see than hear
something 1000 times. Learning Hep
brew here in Israel only highlights this
saying. Back home, we learn to read
[Hebrew] only from the page. Here, it
is all around us, in the culture, in the
people. We are learning Modern Hep
brew which, at the same time, makes
the Biblical Hebrew come alive.”
A
select group of RIS students from the undergraduate and graduate
divisions met with the U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard H. Jones.
Students were impressed with the interest Ambassador Jones
showed in their experiences studying in Israel.
Stephie Mohr, 20, from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, said
that “It was great that the Ambassador wanted to meet with students from
abroad and hear about our experiences in Israel. He showed a genuine interp
est in us.”
U.S. Ambassador Jones, flanked by Hebrew U. President Prof. Menachem Magidor on the left and RIS Provost Prof.
Jaime Kapitulnik on the right, meets with RIS students.