Sunday, October 19, 2014

Teaching of Hebrew at US universities

There can't be any academic or scholarly purpose for the justification of teaching Hebrew at many US universities and colleges. I just don't get the reason for teaching a language that is spoken by less than 7 million around the world, while the languages spoken by hundreds of millions (Urdu, for example, or Punjabi or Dari ) are rarely taught at the same universities. The reason why Hebrew is being taught is purely a silly "counter-balance" to the teaching of Arabic--a language spoken by some 350 million people. College administrators are too afraid in the poisoned climate of the US to offer Arabic without Hebrew anymore.