Dr. Norman Bloom unveils a clear path to reading Hebrew as it was intended to be spoken, after decades of study.

There might still be a few weeks to go until Christmas but many of us are already thinking ahead to the new year. A time of new beginnings, if you're expecting a baby in early 2026, you might be ...

Lost civilizations, mysterious artifacts, and vanished peoples have always fascinated those with an interest in antiquity. However, the first archaeologists were little more than glorified treasure ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

“The Merciful One - may He erect for us David’s fallen Sukkah!”. Some Siddurim vowelize the final word הַנֹּפֶלֶת, ha-nofelet; others הַנֹּפָלֶת, ha-nofalet. It seems like a minor grammatical detail, ...

Niqqud signs are vowel diacritics which are typed over Hebrew carachters, which mark consonants only. Every normal character can carry several Niqqud signs. They can come under the character, inside ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

We know that God often has many names throughout the Bible (Isaiah 9:6), all of these names having significant meaning or highlighting a certain attribute of God. One of the most prominent names used ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...