In the month of December  we celebrate the holiday of Chanuka.

We eat some  doughnuts, our doughnuts are round with no hole. they have jam inside.

In some families, parents give their children Chanuka money.

Today some people like to design doughnuts like these doughnuts.

Every day in the holiday week  we will light the candles in ”Chanukia” called menorah in the u.s.

Every night we light one more candle, the number rises. there will be 9 candles on the last night.

Some people give ”chocolate coins” to children. the coins are made of chocolate.

From Shahar.Y.

Hi , my name is Idan i’m from the city of Ramat-Gan, Israel.

I’m so amazed by the possibility to communicate with people like me in other countries through the site, I love the language ASL but I can not understand each word.

I’m not giving up yet 🙂

I major in Graphic Arts. My big love is football !! my favorit team in israel is Hapoel- Tel Aviv.

Have a wonderful day

love, Idan (a girl).

Do you play badminton?

I don’t play badminton.

Do you have drama and dance at your school?

I had once, but not in school.

Myself, I have a cochlear implant but i dont like it and don’t use it. Today many students have cochlear implants

Amitai (From Israel, a boy)

I am Daniel .

I am 17 .

I volunteer every week.

Read about it here .

http://englishcenterlakash.wikispaces.com/Daniel%27s+Volunteer+Work

(at the very top right hand corner there is an arrow which will let you turn the pages)

Daniel (Israel)

Hello people, my name is Alon and I’m from Israel.

I live in Rishon Lezion, that is a big city near Tel Aviv.

Rishon Lezion is near a sea, and I really like to go to the beach.

I really enjoy reading your posts.

It is  intersting to talk with people like you but from other countries.

I have a one question for you, do you like sport? wish sports?  I really like sports, and my favorite sport is soccer, and the my favorite team is Barcelona, I was in Barcelona city and I whatched a game last week. that was amazing!!

I hope you answer me.

Alon (:

That the beach in Rishon Lezion.

hello.

I am 16 years old.  from Israel.

I enjoy school.

I love Breaks in my school because they are  fun. I speak with my friends 

  My Cafeteria in my high school big and cafeteria has  chairs and tables.

  WE Do not eat lunch in the cafeteria We can buy sweets and sandwiches whenever we want. I like best  to buy  a schnitzel sandwich in the  cafeteria

good day!

Liraz 

Hi!

What’s up?

1.How do you learn at the high-school, with an interpreter?

Because in this school we have interpreters at the class  if it is with the hearing or not.

2.Do you like eat at  McDonald’s? because we like to eat there.

3.DO you know who is Britney Spears? I recommend you listen to this song on youtube: (We are hard of hearing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sxSd1uwoU&feature=related

Please answer us soon! (Ronit and Gavriel from Israel) babyyyy…..

Hi!
How are you?

In Israel we can start learning to drive at 16 and a half without a test.

only at 17 you can take the test. it’s the law! There is also a theory test,

a theory is to study the laws of Transportation, learn the traffic signs.

I Linoy 19 years old, I have been licensed already Almost a year and I’m very pleased.
I’m Ron  19 years old, I have no license. I’ll learn driving soon.

please answer us soon (linoy and ron from Israel)

Hi!

My name  is Stav.

I like to play basketball.

In our school we have 50 Deaf pupils and 1700 hearing pupils.

I am 17.

Stav (Israel)

Hello Jacky.
How are you?
My name is Sara

I chose your question because it is the  shortest  😉 (“Where are you from?”)

I’m from Israel. the land flowing with milk and honey.

The capital is Jerusalem
Tel Aviv is a city that most young people are attracted to her to succeed in their careers.
Eilat is a tourist city in Israel.

Where are you from  Jacky?
Are you girl or  a boy?
Good day:]

Sara

Hi!

What special foods do you have? I like schnitzel and French Fries.

What games do you have on your computer? I play Rayman.

Please answer my questions!

Erez (from Israel)

Epstein Family Photos

Thank you, new friends from the United Sates, for telling us about the TV show “Switched at Birth”.

It isn’t on TV here and my students didn’t know about it.

However, there are some problems. I can’t just tell the students to go and watch it.

My students use Israeli Sign Language which is completely different from ASL.

Most of the  students can’t easily read the captions in English. On You Tube there are captions in English only for the parts when people are using Sign Langauge, not when they are using speech. There are no captions in Hebrew.

Also, I’m the English (for Hebrew speakers) teacher, I need to teach the students English!

So, I took the first two minutes of this episode (thank you Arlene for sending it to me!)

and created exercises at different levels for it. Here is an example of one level.

Please write (in the comment section) what you enjoy about the TV show. I hope my students will write about it too, after we work on it.

Naomi from Israel