Polis Institute Launches Consulting Services in North America The Polis Institute of Jerusalem is glad to announce the launch of its new consulting services for educational institutions across North America. These services are designed to help colleges, universities, […]
Join us for the 2024 Dies Academicus on October 8th Jews and Arabic: Judeo-Arabic, Its Literature, and Why It Matters In this lecture, we will immerse ourselves in the revolutionary […]
In collaboration with the Polis Insitute, Northridge Preparatory School is organizing a five day in-person conference in the Chicago area for current and aspiring teachers interested in learning how to […]
Considering the current situation in Jerusalem and the country, it was decided to postpone the start date of the Fall semester 2023-2024 to Monday, October 16. This applies to both, In-person and Online […]
Instructor Iosif Fridman In this course the students will learn to read and write using the traditional Ethiopicsyllabic writing system, as well as with the help of the transcription system […]
A lecture by Prof. Ophir Münz-Manor The Polis Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Souls and Sounds of the City We do not know how hymns in Late Antiquity sounded. We do know that […]
The Polis Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Souls and Sounds of the City According to Reuchlin, only the Jews draw from the sources and therefore the Hebrew language “must be kissed tenderly and […]
Congratulations to Polis graduate and Biblical Hebrew instructor Oobie Weinberg, who was recently accepted for a position as an exegete and researcher with Cambridge Digital Biblical Research https://www.cdbr.org/ . Oobie will […]
Dr. Tania Notarius draws on her research to create this new course Ugaritic is an ancient Northwest Semitic language and an early cognate of Hebrew, Phoenician, and Aramaic. Dr. Tania […]
In this article by Jonah McKeown, which appears on the Catholic News Agency website September 30, 2022, Dean Christophe Rico explains why he feels that there is no other translation […]
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