Hebrew

Ari FeldmanMay 31, 2019

What are holishkes, if you please?

Jenny SingerMay 30, 2019

Ritchie and his wife speak Hebrew in front of their kids as code.

“Ki beiti beit tefillah yikarei l’chol ha-‘amim — ‘may my house be a house of prayer for many nations.’ We were not formed as a theocracy.

Jordan KutzikJanuary 8, 2019

How is Yiddish at fault in the loss of Sephardi culture in America when Jewish schools only teach modern Hebrew and Israeli history?

PJ GrisarDecember 24, 2018

How can one find fresh nuance in a 2,ooo-year-old book? If the book is the Hebrew Bible, by returning to the original Hebrew.

Josefin DolstenOctober 21, 2018

If you read the “Harry Potter” series in Hebrew you may have noticed something curious: Sirius Black sings a Hanukkah song in one scene.

Aiden PinkSeptember 25, 2018

Google Maps uses Hindi for maps of India, Arabic for maps of Egypt and even Amharic for maps of Ethiopia. But why not Hebrew for maps of Israel?

Jenny SingerSeptember 3, 2018

Entering spiritual spaces can be a linguistic minefield. We’ve got you covered.

JTAAugust 26, 2018

A pocket watch with Hebrew letters on its face that belonged to a Jewish Russian immigrant who died on the Titanic sold at auction for $57,500.

Geographical and linguistic history reveals that the question is much more complicated than it seems.