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12021-06-30T00:53:49+00:00Israel in Modern Hebrew School Education24plain2021-07-02T19:04:20+00:00By running 55 Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Hebrew School websites from synagogues and Jewish centers in Northern New Jersey through Voyant Tools, I was able to find the most common words throughout the curricula. The Cirrus Cloud below highlights the 35 most frequent terms throughout the website, and the larger the term, the more frequently it occurred. "Israel" ranks as the 19th most commonly used term out of over 5,000 words.
Voyant Tools also allowed me to view the most frequent links between words across the curricula.
The fact that one of the most common links to the word "Israel" is the word "love" highlights the fact that promoting love towards the State of Israel is a common aspect of many Hebrew school curriculums.
Other words that had links to Israel included "homeland" and "home." While the phrase "identify with" did not link to Israel, it did link to "Zionist."
It is clear that encouraging support for and emphasizing Jewish children's connection to the state of Israel is relatively common practice across Hebrew Schools in Northern New Jersey.
Below is an interactive link to the Voyant Tools corpus I created. Type "Israel" into the box on the left side of the image below the visualization and select it from the dropdown menu to see the links between this term and other terms throughout the Hebrew School curricula.
