The term meaning honor and respect is very important in any society, but even more so in Middle Eastern societies. The English word “respect” means “look back (again), regard”; honor means “regard ...

Every Israeli can suggest new words to the academy, and the academy’s board meets periodically to discuss the propositions and accept or reject them. Academy members, naturally, also propose words.

The English word “reincarnation” robs the concept of its specificity of different places, times and cultures. The same can be said about “atonement.” Hayim Nahman Bialik, the great Hebrew poet of the ...