Ruth Reches is launching her new book “Iliustruotas hebrajų-lietuvių kalbų žodynėlis pradedantiesiems” [Illustrated Hebrew-Lithuanian Dictionary for Beginners] for teaching Hebrew to children whose native language is Lithuanian. The learning aid will help pupils understand better and acquire new material, while parents can use the book to follow the progress of their children.

The book is useful for adults beginning Hebrew as well.

Ruth Reches was graduated from Bar Ilan University in Israel in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree sociology, psychology and criminology. In 2001 she completed a master’s degree at Vilnius University in clinical psychology. In 2007 she received a teaching credential from Vilnius Pedagogical University. Currently she is doing doctoral work at Mykolas Romeris University, where she has been teaching psychology to students pursuing a variety of disciplines since 2001. She worked as a psychologist at the medical center of the Lithuanian Interior Ministry from 2006 to 2011.

Since 1997 she has also taught Hebrew at the Sholem Aleichem Gymnasium in Vilnius and served as school psychologist. She teaches psychology as an elective to upper-level students there as well from the sophomore, junior and senior classes.

She’s been teaching Hebrew under the Tal Am program since 2008. Twice yearly she attends seminars in Israel and Europe for teachers using that program to hone their teaching methods. She has attended seminars for teachers of the Hebrew language in Israel, Italy, Austria, Belarus, Russia and Latvia.

כלי מתודולוגי “מילון מאויר למתחילים: עברי-ליטאי ,ליטאי-עברי” מיועד לתלמידים הלומדים עברית ששפת האם שלהם ליטאית. תומך-למידה זה יעזור לתלמידים להבין היטב את החומר הנילמד ולהפנימו. ההורים, בהשתמשם במילון, יוכלו להיות שותפים פעילים בלמידת ילדיהם. המילון הזה יעיל לצעירים כמו למבוגרים המתחילים את לימוד השפה העברית.