Aviya Kushner is the Forward’s language columnist and the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb and The Grammar of God.
Aviya Kushner
By Aviya Kushner
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Culture Those new Isabel Allende and Percival Everett novels are fake, but the scandal surrounding them is real
An AI-generated list of summer book titles is the sort of thing Talmudic sages warned against
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Culture How Hitler and Ye sent a wish for fortune and good health straight to ‘heil’
Thanks to Ye's latest 'song,' the word 'heil' is spreading like an epidemic
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Opinion Netanyahu got his own son’s name wrong — was this a trivial mistake or a revealing Freudian slip?
When the Israeli prime minister called his son 'Avraham,' he called up images of one of the Torah's most terrifying moments
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Opinion Though sworn enemies, Hamas and Donald Trump seem to share a common language
Both the US president and the leaders of Hamas have urged sacrifice in the cause of greater glory
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Opinion Trump’s cuts are a war on Jewish literature, thought and history itself
The proposed elimination of the NEA and the NEH is already hitting the Jewish academic and literary community hard
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Culture In a time of tariffs and uncertainty, this is the Jewish word we need to soothe our minds and souls
A tariff, which derives from an Arabic word that means 'notification,' is remarkably adjacent to an Aramaic word for 'translation' and 'commentary'
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Opinion Beware an administration that bellows ‘English Only’ and ‘America First’ while decimating education
Trump's executive orders aren't about language as much as they are about shutting down other perspectives
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Opinion As Trump targets Zelenskyy, a frightening reminder of taxes Nazis and Romans levied on Jews
In siding with Putin, Trump and Vance recall the way in which autocrats have further victimized victims
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