When a Jewish language is lost, we lose more than just words
In 'Always Carry Salt,' Samantha Ellis races against time to try to save her Judeo-Iraqi Arabic language and culture
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Culture At this interfaith calligraphy class, the lines between Jew and Muslim blur
Sacred Scripts brings together young artists and community leaders to write in Hebrew and Arabic, who draw connections between the letters and themselves
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Culture At this Brooklyn cafe, you can practice your Hebrew, aid Palestinians and imagine you’re in Mauritania
In an increasingly polarized world, Brooklyn's Barzakh remains stubbornly in-between
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Culture Why are the accents in Jesus movies so weird?
Denizens of the imaginary ancient Middle East speak in an exotic-sounding, unidentifiable hodgepodge of sounds
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Culture So what does ‘intifada’ actually mean?
Rep. Elise Stefanik equated 'intifada' with a call for genocide against Jews. So what does intifada really mean?
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Opinion In Jerusalem, Arab citizens are less visible now. Do they hate us?
I feel safest here, despite the Israel-hating wolves at our borders
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Fast Forward Dozens of Israelis arrested for social media posts defending Gaza, advocates say
In addition to the arrests, 70 students are facing disciplinary action from their schools over posts about the conflict
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Yiddish World Believe it or not, there’s a Yiddish guide to Palestinian Arabic
Its eccentric author also wrote a Hebrew translation of Buddhist teachings
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