Rahel Halabe is program developer and instructor of Biblical and Modern Hebrew. She is also a translator of Modern Arabic literature to Hebrew. She has applied her Hebrew teaching methods to shaping and teaching courses in both academic and community frameworks. The overlapping fields of communicative Modern Hebrew teaching and translation effectively enrich her Biblical Hebrew pedagogy and methodology, topics on which she has published several articles.
Born and educated in Israel.
1984 – moved to Vancouver, Canada
Academic Background:
2006 – M.Ed. Modern Language Education, Department of Language and Literacy – University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1981 – Translation of Scientific Writings Diploma – Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1974 – High School Teaching Diploma for Arabic as a Second Language – Hebrew University.
1973 – B. A. in Arabic Language and Literature – Hebrew University.
Translation of Arabic Literature into Hebrew:
1982 – to date – Published the translation of 9 books (Lebanese, Palestinians, Egyptians & Sudanese) from Arabic into Hebrew https://www.hebrew-with-halabe.com/arabic-hebrew-translations/.
Hebrew Instruction:
- 2015/16 – Teaching Modern Hebrew at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University in Beijing, China.
- 2008 – 2010, 2012 – 2013 – Adjunct Lecturer at University of British Columbia – Classical, Near Eastern, Religious Studies teaching the Biblical Hebrew introductory courses (1st or 2nd year).
- 1997 – 2007 – Adjunct Lecturer at the Vancouver School of Theology – developed and taught a curriculum for the Introduction to Biblical Hebrew.
- 2003 – to date – Modern and Biblical Hebrew instruction at the Jewish Community Centre
- 2000 – to date – the Vancouver Mini Ulpan, offered now in summer and winter at the Jewish Community Centre
- 1984 – 2010 – taught Classical and Modern Hebrew to children, youth and adults at different levels and venues including: Vancouver Talmud Torah (elementary and high school), Torah High, and synagogues (Beth Hamidrash, Or-Shalom, Shaarey Tefilah, Beth Israel).
Development of Hebrew Teaching Programs
- 2011 – published Hinneh – Biblical Hebrew the Practical Way – a text and workbook
- 2008 – was trained and participated in collecting and developing learning material for advanced learners of Hebrew in Multilingual Advanced Learning On-Line Langnet
- 2005 – 2007, contributed the Biblical Hebrew chapters to 14 lessons of Shivim Panim (Seventy Faces of Wisdom) developed at the Florence Melton Centre in the Hebrew University
- 2000 – to date, created, organizes and teaches 3 levels of the Vancouver Mini Ulpan (intensive immersion Hebrew courses)