Envisioned and developed by the Melton Research Center for Jewish Education, the Abraham and Mollie Goodman Language Resource Center was established in July 1999 to serve JTS students with technology-assisted language instruction and to function as a laboratory for the development of innovative techniques for technology-based language education.
The Goodman Center is housed on the seventh floor of Kripke Tower and it includes a high-tech "smart" classroom for group and individual instruction. The center houses a library of instructional and reference materials that are available to students and faculty.
Learning via the Language Resource Center is now part of the experience of learning Hebrew as well as Arabic at JTS. Though the center works most directly with the Hebrew Language Department, its mission encompasses instruction in all of the languages and texts studied at JTS.