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Oct 42 min read

A Year of Compassion: A Letter From Noa to the TINAU Community

To our community of learners at This Is Not An Ulpan, As we look back on a year filled with unimaginable loss, devastation, war, and...

Sep 133 min read

Hope Through Education: A Letter From Matan to the TINAU Community

To our community of learners at This Is Not An Ulpan, The war in Gaza rages on as the Israeli government refuses to accept any deal on...

Jun 266 min read

An Open Letter To The Israeli Student Association

*Hebrew below Gal is teaching at the Open University of Israel and his research focuses on issues of ethnicity, citizenship education,...

Jun 52 min read

How do you say McCarthyism in Hebrew?

Columbia? You Should Really Watch Israeli Universities As Israelis decry protests in American and European universities as antisemitic,...

Apr 252 min read

What is the Jewish Mimouna?

Originating in Moroccan Jewish culture,The magic of Mimouna lies in its open doors and open hearts. On the night of Mimouna, homes across...

Apr 41 min read

Arabic Transliteration

TINAU's Arabic Transliteration System Learning Hebrew and Arabic with their original scripts, rather than relying on transliteration, is...

Mar 142 min read

Why was Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian suspended?

Todays’ Lesson - How To be Rhinos In 1959, Eugène Ionesco wrote the play “Rhinoceros”, about a small french town whose residents all turn...

Mar 142 min read

Solidarity and Hope in Wartime: A Letter from Nagham to the TINAU Community

Dear TINAU Community, In the midst of war's chaos and uncertainty, our unity and shared experiences become beacons of strength. As a...

Feb 222 min read

Noam Chomsky on Native Language

The notion of “standard language” is not a linguistic notion. Rather, it reflects structures of power and authority. --Noam Chomsky,...

Feb 221 min read

Hebrew Transliteration

TINAU's Hebrew Transliteration System Learning Hebrew and Arabic with their original scripts, rather than relying on transliteration, is...

Mar 15, 20232 min read

How Did The Watermelon Become a Palestinian Symbol?

Red, black, white and green – the colors of the Palestinian flag… and of watermelons. The Watermelon as a Palestinian Symbol In occupied...

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May 31, 20223 min read

What is an Ulpan? What is ‘Not an Ulpan’?

If you’re reading this blogpost, it may not come as a shock to you that in 1948, Israel needed a solution to a mass influx of Jewish...