On the delights of discovering a truly ‘essential’ Jewish book
Even after his mother and newborn son were murdered by the Nazis, Avrom Sutzkever relentlessly fought the attempt to kill Jews and Jewish culture.
Trump’s impeachment lawyers are at war with language itself
The Trump team’s attack on journalists represents an all-out attempt to replace truth with lies.
An impeachment with the power to cleanse and restore
One tiny little dot in the Hebrew word for “impeach” carries great significance and food for thought.
What this week’s Torah portion says about Marjorie Taylor Greene
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one another.”
Why Israel’s multilingual approach to vaccination works — and why our monolingual one doesn’t
The multilingual and multicultural approach is the opposite of what’s happening in America where crucial segments of the population are left out.
How the Capitol riots changed the way we talk about insurrection
Five linguistic themes have emerged from the attack on the Capitol that left five dead and many more wounded.
In Hebrew, ‘impeachment’ has the power to clean and restore us
One tiny little dot in the Hebrew word for “impeach” carries great significance and food for thought.
No, the Trump Twitter ban isn’t ‘Orwellian’ - Stop saying it is.
Lots of pundits have been throwing around the word ‘Orwellian’ to describe the current state of politics. Are they right?
The danger when Nazis think of their victims as numbers, not people
“You’re almost looking at them as a number, not as a person,” Johnny Garza told his interviewer.
Even dictionaries couldn’t keep up with language in 2020
Normally, the Oxford English Dictionary anoints a word of the year. This year, the OED has released an “unprecedented” 38-page report.