Ruth Ben-Yehuda Adler is a Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she teaches all of the Hebrew Language courses. Ruth is a Hebrew Consultant at the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island. Duties include training teachers, creating materials and providing prototype lessons for each class. She also regularly presents training workshops for instructors of Hebrew as a second language in the U.S. and in Israel. Ruth is the Founder and Director of Tamar, the first Hebrew Ulpan in Rhode Island. She holds a B.A. degree in Hebrew and Arabic Language and an M.A. degree in Hebrew Language from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she previously served as Hebrew Instructor and Head Teacher at the Rothberg School for Overseas Studies.