The New Yorker faces backlash for reviewing a book that links Hebrew punctuation to colonialism and the history of Jewish ...

The crux of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, now a splashy Netflix miniseries, is a Hebrew word that doesn’t exist. At one ...

Can you learn to read Hebrew even if you do not speak the language? A HelloNation article featuring insights from Diana Yacobi of Sarah & David's Read Hebrew Now in Englewood, New Jersey, explains how ...

Words matter. Words of truth convey values, culture, tradition. False words tear at the fabric of society, creating a chaotic biblical Tower of Babel. For believers, the world was created by Divine ...

Two new memorandums of understanding broaden opportunities for biomedical research, teaching, scholarly exchange and more.

If you spend enough time on social media, you’re likely going to come across claims about Hebrew that will make your head spin: Hebrew is a European language. Hebrew is actually stolen Arabic. There ...

Linguists tend to imagine language as a phenomenon outside human agency, its processes, like language change and acquisition, explained by deterministic rules. Dartmouth linguist Lewis Glinert, author ...

From cabal to camel, a list of English words that derive from Hebrew. Hebrew is part of the family of Semitic languages. (In fact, the word “Semitic” is of Hebrew origin, deriving from the biblical ...

Despite years of Jewish education, countless individuals find themselves unable to speak Hebrew with any real confidence. Over and over, I hear the same sentiment: “I spent 12 years in Jewish school, ...

A man suspected of killing a police officer and three people at a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey, was linked Wednesday to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, a law enforcement official said ...

Writer, teacher, and Yiddishist Curt Leviant’s new novel, “King of Yiddish,” will be published this month. Let’s say it at the outset. This book is a gem. Every page of “The Story of Hebrew” is packed ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...