#ulpan in israel

[ulpanor1]

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[hebrewbyinbal]

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[starlightomatic]

Here's a list of organizations within Israel doing good work to document and resist the occupation and oppression of Palestinians. I highly recommend following them.

Standing Together

An organization of Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel that has been advocating for ceasefire and promotes a vision of Palestinian-Jewish coexistance.

Radical Bloc

A group that organizes weekly pro-ceasefire protests in Tel Aviv, even in the face of police harassment.

B'tselem

An organization that documents Israel's oppression of Palestinians, from the war in Gaza to settler violence and continued dispossession in the West Bank. "B'tselem" means "in the image" referencing the Jewish concept that every human is made in the image of God.

Zochrot

An organization whose main goal is educate the Israeli public about the Nakba, despite the lengths Israel has gone to hide it from view. "Zochrot" means "rememberers."

Breaking the Silence

An organization that collects testimonies of current and IDF soldiers of the things they witness and perpetrated.

This Is Not An Ulpan

A co-op language school for Hebrew and Arabic run by Palestinian and Jewish educators that also posts information about the situation from a radical perspective.

Mesarvot Network

An organization that supports young Israeli who want to refuse being draft into the IDF. "Mesarvot" means "refusers."

Parents' Circle

A peace organization comprised of family members of Israelis and Palestinians killed in the conflict.

[faerie-fang]

the israeli government offers huge incentives for jews to move to israel — free healthcare, college tuition, tax benefits, rental assistance, free ulpan (immersive hebrew lessons) and of course — citizenship. for zionists, moving to israel is viewed as a beautiful thing, being able to go back to the ‘homeland’ a holy return — the phrase for it “making aliyah” or “to make aliyah” literally means to ascend — but it’s settlement. it’s government incentives to settle the land to give israel more power, more leverage, more future soldiers for the idf.

[myaliyahjourney]

Wow… my last post I talked about my 3 year anniversary coming up… well now it’s my 8 year Aliyah anniversary coming to.

Since I made Aliyah I got a job, got married, had my son, Covid pandemic, went back to work, had my daughter, decided not to go back to work due to burnout and mental health as well as physical health troubles, Oct 7 and a war with Hamas. I’m currently still not working as I struggle with chronic pain and fatigue. Aldo I struggled to learn Hebrew thanks to my neurodivergence struggles which limited the job market to English customer service representatives and that was the jobs that caused me to crash and burn. Thankfully I have a very supportive husband.

Israel is an expensive country to live in, though the cost of living has soared globally. Food costs are honestly insane and as a family of 5 and neurodivergent kiddos, it’s hard.

To live in Israel you need:

Money

Post secondary education in a career that is always in demand. Hi-tech is honestly not that great and taxing on your mental health

Learn Hebrew before you come because the free Ulpan is not good at all

Have a support system such as family/spouse family/good friend

Patience

Open mind and heart

Passion

Flexibility

Honestly the list could go on

[chicago-geniza]

Between the head of the Luftwaffe donating blood to the IDF and Scholz quoting the Merkel 2008 Staataräson proclamation and the Krzysztof Rak speech about Germany's raison d'etat vs. the EU vis-a-vis Poland and Geneviève Zubrzycki's work and the Polish leftist / German antideutsch economist couple (neither Jewish) who met during ulpan in Tel Aviv calling me (Jewish) antisemitic for opposing Israel. The angel of history is telling me to write my fucking thesis oh my Gd (it is about (post-)empire and assimilation and the idea of the West and philosemitism + Orientalism and the psychoanalytic turn in historiography and why memory politics are politically evil)

[torais-life]

Shabat Shalom!. I recommend you the YouTube channels in spanish, english, portuguese, francais and russian by Machon Meir the yeshiva and midrasha in Israel wich I'm studying (but from Ar). The Rabbis are amazing ☺️📜

[nataliesnews]

A dream and nothing good 10.9.2023

I had a rather weird thing happen to me some nights ago. I usually leave Audible on so that the story can send me to sleep. It sent me back to look for this old picture of my first year in Israel when I was on Beit Hashita. I woke up thinking of Sergio, whom I had been dreaming of. I had not thought of him in years. He  had been my boyfriend then at the ulpan.. He is the one with the sombrero and, I think, was from Mexico. I could not think why I should suddenly, after all these years, have dreamed of him. Then, as often happens, I had to go back to the story and listen to the part which I had not heard as   I had fallen asleep while listening. And there suddenly the name Sergio came up in the story. I wonder if one could learn a new language during one's sleep. 

I wonder how a parent whose son or daughter is about to go into the army feels about the following: 

Tel Aviv school board summoned the principal  over rally where 200 students said they won’t enlist

Education Ministry reportedly says it'll weigh revoking high school's license, funding; board barred event from being held, but organizers went ahead anyway

 What about the 1000s of ultra orthodox who are going to be set free by law and will be given the same stipends if not more than the secular youth who will have to endanger themselves in protecting these parasites. And the rest of us will go on working for them and,  if not working, will see part of our pensions going to them. Their rabbis are not called in to be questioned.

Yesterday at Sheikh Jarrah the police were much engaged in charging into the demonstrators so as to grab the Palestinian flag and beat up those holding it. I remind you that there is no law against it. This is the post by the demonstrator who was arrested. You can see the policeman showing how well he has learned from the murderers in America. Also how he has to be pulled off his prey

"Thanks to policeman Idan Luzon who knocked me down, pinned me to the floor with a knee on my chest and beat me, while two people who claimed to be policemen arrested Eran (right). They did not identify themselves. We demanded that they identify themselves and told them that until they show a policeman's ID, they are not policemen for us. The punishment for our insolence is beatings and arrest. Policeman Luzon had to be taken off me by force, in the picture you can see his station commander taking him off me. Shabbat Shalom to everyone except the Israel Police (Photo: Tzipi Menashe) " Printed on facebook.

This is a sign at one of the settlements.   "WARNING.   This road leads to the settlement of Bat Ayan.It is under Jewish control. It is dangerous to their lives to enter. Sorry Muhammad."

In other words like in Germany ....no dogs and Jews allowed.

The signs underneath were held by people at the demonstration in support of the new laws. They claim that Yigal Amir was right. Kahana was right. Amiram ben Oriel was right. Baruch Goldstein was right.

 They were all murderers. The people holding the signs are accomplices to murder.

I am sure you know who Amir was.

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Ben oriel:   The Duma village arson attack refers to the firebombing of a Palestinian family home[1] in late July 2015 in the village of Duma, which resulted in the death of three people; 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh was burned alive in the fire, while both his parents died from their injuries within weeks. One child escaped. An orphan.

Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קופל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein;[2] December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an Israeli-American mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 terrorist attack on a mosque attended by Palestinians, known as the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.[3][4][5] Goldstein was a supporter of the Kach, a religious Zionist party that the United States, the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization

Kach is Kahana   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane#Election_to_Knesset

And where women are concerned...Also female soldiers were ordered not to sing in the kitchen as it was bothering religious soldiers. And this

-In latest case of alleged harassment, woman says bus driver told her ‘You’re naked’

22-year-old says Dan driver repeated his comments twice when she boarded with a sleeveless shirt; company says it's investigating complaint

And to show you in what direction Israel is going ......yesterday one of our women was arrested and handcuffed in Tel Aviv for photographing accomplices to the police....she was fingerprinted and kept for hours until eventually released. Now she has been accused of attacking one of the policemen.

And a man arrested on  Saturday morning for putting up placards.

Not a good beginning to the week and worse will follow.

[psychologeek]

I'd like to add that I'm 26, and one of my first memories is from when missile land in my area, and everything shake. I was a kid. my youngest sibling at that time was a baby.

First nights we went to sleep in the local sheltered area, aka local daycare, with most of the neighborhood. Then a missile hit near my mom's car, and that evening we moved to stay with my grandparents for the next several weeks.

This os hardly the earliest or only war/operation I lived through. Just what I remember. And I grew up in a relatively quiet place.

90s kids could tell you about carrying gas masks everywhere, like a purse, and decorating the ugly brown box.

Also:

1. Feel free to look up the Wikipedia "pogrom". There's a short list (well. Not so short. But it's not full). In 95% of it (pre 1948), the victims are Jewish. It decrease dramatically after that.

Not after the holocaust. Not after "Never Again" (multiple pogroms during 1945-1947, not only in Europe. Including murder of survivors that came back from camps (Poland, for example).)

2. Army isn't just combat:

There's something important to be said -

I realised that when people think about "army", they think "combat". That's... not accurate.

I think about 10% of IDF soldiers are actually combat.

3. Army in Israel/"The People's Army"

There's this ethos, that was more accurate during the first decades, that the IDF is army of the people/nation. That it work as a "forge" to build connections between different people from different backgrounds.

This is still kinda true, though less percentage of the population is recruited every year (I think about 60/40% finish serve full time?). Many reasons: religion, disabilities, gender (partly), non-fit, etc.

4. Soldiers and civilians:

Another thing outsiders people don't always know/think of, is that Israel is still a very young country. Also, the IDF was formed during war (from 3 different organisations) and was the most organised big group.

What does it mean?

Well. It means that many of other national priorities just.... became army responsibilities.

Like what?

Like education.

During the first decades, there was a massive shortage of teachers all over, especially in the peripheral areas. (This is still a problem btw)

But you can't really FORCE someone to move to another place, right? Especially when the country is poor AF.

The solution? teacher-soldier! (Mora-Chayelet (fem) in Hebrew)

They got about few months of training (course), and went to teach in schools. First in the refugees camp (Ma'abara - lit. "(place of) transition"), where people lived in tents and there was constant shortage of everything, as Hebrew tutors. Expended to other peripheral areas.

I had a friend that was a Mora-Chayelet with deaf/HoH (Shema). I don't remember much, I think she was in school in the morning and with assisted adults at night, but don't take me for my word. Anyway, she got an ISL (Israeli Sign Language) course and help with interpretation and stuff.

The majority go to Immigration Support (קל"ע - קליטת עליה), like teaching Hebrew. Morning: work at schools, evening: immigration centre, Ulpan, YaR centre etc.

Also Community (mostly informal education, like in off-school education) and Pnimiyot (AKA: boarding schools/residential) - schools that include sleep, food, and sometimes afternoon activities. Usually kids from complicated backgrounds that couldn't stay home, teens from places with not-so-good education system/distant areas, and teens who immigrant without their parents.

(There are also Pnimiyot for specialised education, but they don't have MC. For example: gifted teens, STEM orientation, farming/agriculture, religious schools.)

Like civil support and control during massive disasters.

AKA פיקוד העורף (Pikud Ha'Oref). From teaching kids what to do during emergencies (fire, earthquake, missile attack, etc.), to being link between army and civil organisations (like now). Or during the first months of COVID, as many things were operated by PHO. Also the search and rescue unit, iirc.

i personally don’t support war and find blindly serving any military awful. I don’t mean to be rude i just wonder why you think that defending israel is the only way to garuntee jewish safety? that feels like taking responsibility off of other countries and leaving diaspora jews vunerable. im really just anti military but this conflict has been awful and i hope for the safety of all jewish people israelis muslims and palestinians but no safety to a government of right wingers

I admire your bravery in reaching out when I don’t have anon turned on. Few would, so good on you.

First off, I’m not serving blindly. None of the soldiers I’m serving with are serving blindly. We all believe in what we’re doing and we’re going to keep doing it until the mission is done and all of our people are safe again. I could get into the nuances of conscription and reserves but I’m not going to. With confidence, succinctly, none of us are serving blindly. (I’m also employed by the IDF outside of reserves so I assure you that I, in particular, love my army and believe in what we stand for.)

I don’t *think* that defending Israel is the only way to guarantee Jewish safety. I know it is. We are a country surrounded by homicidal antisemites. Hamas has stated that they will continue doing what they did on October 7th until we cease to exist. There is no peace for the Israeli or Palestinian people with Hamas still in power. So we’re destroying their tunnels and we’re rooting them out and we’re here for our hostages. Let’s play devils advocate - if Israel didn’t exist do you all honestly think that Hamas and all other Iran proxies would just allow Jews and the Western world to live in peace? Because they wouldn’t. Y’all should be grateful that we’re here because if we weren’t, they’d be killing Jews elsewhere. Don’t let them fool you into believing this is about land. They. Hate. Jews. And Israel is the only place in the world where Jews can truly defend themselves. My grandfather survived the Holocaust BH and he always says that they didn’t have a way to defend themselves in the camps. They weren’t organized. They didn’t have weapons. They didn’t have the upper hand. Well now we’re organized and we’re armed and we’re trained. Never again will we be helpless - thanks to Israel.

“That feels like taking the responsibility off of other countries” - what responsibility? To protect Jews? To persecute Hamas? Feh! None of that will ever happen. Not once has any other country *saved* the Jewish people. And, actually, often times people are turning a blind eye to our persecution - like most of the world did on and after and ever since October 7th. Like they did during the Holocaust. Like they have every time Hamas and PIJ indiscriminately fire rockets at Israel. As I said, never again will our safety be in anyone else’s hands because the world has shown us time and time again that they do not care.

“Leaving diaspora Jews vulnerable” is an insane way to blame the victim. WE WERE ATTACKED. But do you think we needed to be attacked for people to hate Jews? No, this has just empowered them to do so out loud. There has always been a correlation between anti-Israel hate and violence against Jews in the diaspora. In May of 2021 when 4000+ rockets were fired into Israel, goyim in the diaspora took this as permission to act out their antisemitic fantasies. Again when WE WERE ATTACKED. Don’t forget - People were celebrating our massacre before Israel even set foot in Gaza. Don’t let the world fool you into thinking that Israel defending ourselves has created antisemitism in the diaspora, it’s only encouraged it.

I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you are not Jewish. I don’t know how to explain this conflict to you - a conflict I have lived my entire life (like my parents and grandparents before me). I don’t know how to share my pain and grief and the pain and grief of my tribe in a way that will make sense. But I’m done needing to justify my existence as a Jew. Israel is done justifying its existence as the homeland of the Jewish people. History has shown us that our survival is our responsibility and I/we won’t apologize for it. The same people that are too cowardly to stand up for us when our people are killed and raped can keep their mouths shut when we defend ourselves.

And it seems like maybe you didn’t read this post that I shared today which really would have answered a lot of this without me needing to go on a sleep deprived rant.

[nzisraelnews]

Creative and Engaging: New Rabbi for Wellington Brings Difference | One Community

She studied German and Hebrew where she gained her BA(Hons). She took a trip to Israel where she attended an ulpan and got to know her big Israeli ... https://bit.ly/3Kuqcz3

[ulpanor1]

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Ulpan-Or is the right institution for learning Hebrew. It has been teaching the Israeli language to the world for two decades and it has over 90 schools using its curriculum. It has physical campuses in Israel and online courses for distance education.

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[hebrewbyinbal]

A flat tire is a situation that can happen to anyone, and it's never pleasant. Whether you're visiting or living in Israel, it's important to know how to express this common issue.

In the video, you'll learn the phrase "יֵש לִי פַּנְצֵ'ר" /yesh lee 'pan-cher/, which is how Israelis commonly say they have a flat tire.

But here's the twist: the formal and proper Hebrew word for "flat tire" is "תקר" /'te-ker/. However, in reality, Israelis don't use this word. Instead, we all opt for "פַּנְצֵ'ר" /'pan-cher/, which is borrowed from the English word "puncture".

So, first, it makes it easier for you to learn this one, as it's closer to English, and makes sense;

And second, using /'te-ker/ might make you sound like a tourist, or someone fresh off the plane attending an Ulpan. On the other hand, "פַּנְצֵ'ר" /'pan-cher/ is the word used by locals, and using it will make you sound like you've been around and understand the language as it's used in real-life situations.

This example highlights how language is dynamic and ever-evolving. Sometimes, it's the informal and adopted words that truly help you blend in and sound natural when communicating with locals and native speakers.

So fingers crossed you will never have a flat tire anywhere, and enjoy your journey of learning Hebrew as it's spoken in Israel!

[butchfriend]

A story is told in the Babylonian Talmud: Rabbi Tarfon and the elders were reclining in Nitzah’s attic in the town of Lod. When someone asked this question, תלמוד גדול או מעשה גדול “Is study greater or is action greater?”

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I was in my mid-twenties, living in San Francisco. I had decided to fulfill my life’s dream and apply to rabbinical school. But I needed to improve my Hebrew to pass the entrance exam. So I decided to travel to Jerusalem with three friends to study Hebrew and to understand for myself what I had been taught about “the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.” We had enrolled in a municipal ulpan. The class was almost entirely made up of Palestinians hoping to learn Hebrew so they could work in Israel. It was the summer of 2006. Two days after arriving, Israel went to war with Lebanon and Gaza was under lockdown. Protests broke out. Caught in the midst of a political situation I did not fully understand, a friend and I connected with a group called Birthright Unplugged. We dropped out of Ulpan and spent 10 days traveling around the West Bank, visiting with Palestinians.

And then we spent the better part of that summer living in Ramallah and traveling around the West Bank, attending Palestinian-led demonstrations. Demonstrations to save people’s homes, their olive orchards, to defend their access to water. We would gather as a group, internationals, Israelis, and Palestinians. We were told to always bring a bandana and an onion, because they helped diffuse the pepper spray. I remember that in the month leading up to this trip, I had a nightmare that I was in a war zone running from gunfire. When I woke up one morning, my girlfriend at the time, told me not to worry. I was, after all, only going to study Hebrew. But there I was on a Friday in the town of Bil’in - as we approached the edge of this community’s olive grove, where the Israeli government was trying to build a wall. And I could feel that I was part of something much larger. As if this was performance art; as if everyone knew exactly how the script unfolded. A Palestinian couple attempted to walk past the blockade so that they could get married on their land, and the army met them with tear gas. Protesters threw rocks with handmade slingshots. The army began shooting metal bullets and the group dispersed. I ran off with one friend, ducking in and out of stone walls and fruit trees. In one moment I stood and watched a bullet as if in slow motion zoom past my chest within inches of my body. We took shelter in the home of an elderly Palestinian family who served us fresh picked plums, so accustomed to this violence it required no mention. I spent the rest of that summer traveling around the West Bank, running from gunfire and tear gas, listening to the stories of Palestinians, and using my body as a human shield. I returned home to San Francisco devastated, traumatized and transformed.

I joined an Arab-led organizing group, protesting the continued war in Gaza and Lebanon. I attended organizing meetings and protests. I got arrested more than once. I slept very little. I was grieving my relationship to the State of Israel, to the State in general, and to the Judaism of my childhood. I was also waking up. I saw that the very warzone I feared and encountered in Palestine, was also present for black and brown communities in every neighborhood I have ever lived in. I was agitated and motivated. Everything felt urgent. Everything felt urgent, and I did everything I could think of to do. After a few months of direct action, I was exhausted. I hadn't paced myself, and I started to experience inner collapse. I remember the afternoon that I biked all the way across San Francisco to arrive at the Pacific ocean. I stood on the beach screaming and crying into the horizon. I was so overwhelmed by my own growing awareness of the world’s injustice. I decided then to actually apply to rabbinical school. I needed spiritual tools to sustain me.

What is more important, learning or action? My own spiritual and political development has been about the interaction between the two. Learning leading to action. And action leading to more learning. But it has also been hard to know which is more urgent or timely or needed. Not just in the abstract, and not just in a warzone, but here in my daily life. I ask this question every time there is a city-wide or nation-wide protest planned for Shabbat.

Let’s return to Nitzah’s attic and see how our sages answer this question. As a reminder a group of sages were talking and one of them asked the question: What's greater, study or action? First Rabbi Tarfon answered, saying: "Ma’aseh/Action is greater." Then Rabbi Akiva answered saying: "Talmud/Study is greater." Pausing here - lets just notice that our greatest teachers disagree, gracefully. There is no one right answer. They are figuring it out by asking the question together. In response to both Rabbi Tarfon and Rabbi Akiva, everyone in Nitzah’s attic had a collective moment of clarity and and responded: תלמוד גדול שהתלמוד מביא לידי מעשה "Study is greater, for it leads to action." Now you might be thinking - how cliche. Of course these rabbis think study is greater. They are after all, building an entire lineage based on the importance of Talmud Torah. But let’s notice that they don’t all chime in and agree with Rabbi Akiva, who had just spoken. They actually pause, reflect and add something important. Study is great, but not for its own sake. Study is great because it leads us to action. But doesn't that mean action is greater, if that is the ultimate goal? To which Rashi comments: study is greater, because it leads to action, which means we end up doing both.

We end up with both of them in our hands. But I think it's more than that. When I taught this text a few summers ago, my students helped me understand that study is greater because it leads us into the hand of action. Which is to say, it leads us to wiser action. Menachem ben Solomon Meiri or Hameiri, a famous Catalan rabbi who lived in the 13th century, reframes this moment, explaining that if you know what action you need to take, then go ahead and do it. But if you don’t, then study, reflect, pause, learn, which will lead you to the right course of action. Which is to say, study and action are equally important, but for different reasons and in different moments.

It's helpful to see that when we dig deeper in this conversation, there isn't actually a clear binary between study and action. This is not a privileged armchair conversation. This is about our real lives and the choices we need to make about how we live and what we prioritize. When done together, study and action deepen and strengthen each other. And that is what the rabbis mean when they say talmud gadol sh'meivi lidei ma'aseh.

— Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari, Yom Kippur 5783

politics is about doing things and what your actions lead to and not about the things you think are good or bad. & this distinction is one that i think causes a lot of very fundamental misunderstandings when people can't wrap their heads around it but is also like a straightforwardly sensible useful and productive way to think about politics so it is well worth holding to

[girlactionfigure]

Somewhere between pasta and rice "Israeli Couscous" - known as פתיתים in Hebrew - was developed in Israel in the 1950s when rice was hard to come by! In 1953, Israel's 1st Prime Minister David Ben Gurion asked Eugen Proper, one of the founders of the now well-known Osem food company, to come up with a wheat-based substitute for rice. Proper developed פתיתים which is made out of hard wheat flour and toasted in an oven.

Fun Fact: Ptitim is sometimes called "Ben Gurion Rice" and is not even a type of couscous! 

Citizen Café Tel Aviv

[eretzyisrael]

Maysoon Hameed comes home from work as a vice president of an Emirati bank, spends time with her family – and then begins a 90-minute live Hebrew class online.

“After the UAE signed [the Abraham Accords] with Israel, there are a lot of investment opportunities” for both sides, Hameed tells ISRAEL21c.

Read More: Israel21c

[lapis-yam]

My Hebrew is so bad, I’m genuinely embarrassed. I’m studying it on my own at the moment, and it’s an incredibly hard language. I need to learn it tho, cause I want to move to Israel in the next few years. I could do ulpan, but how do you go to Israel for ulpan unless you’re wealthy? Because surely you can’t get a job if you don’t know Hebrew yet. And ulpan is full time, yes? So are you expected to just stay in Israel with absolutely no source of income for the entire course? Or am I just misunderstanding the process.

If you’re Israeli, or better yet, if you completed ulpan in Israel, how did you do it? Feel free to message me.