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    Trapped in Translation

    How to explain Judaism in English—a language whose terminology around religion is built on Christian concepts

    bySeth M. Limmer
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    That English You’re Speaking? It’s Hebrew. (Well, Some of It.)

    The derivations of the words cinnamon, ruthless, scapegoat, and amen

    byMaNishtana
  • Miley Cyrus performs at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards(Rick Diamond/Getty Images for MTV)
    Miley Cyrus performs at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards(Rick Diamond/Getty Images for MTV)
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    Cultural Indigestion: ‘Literally’ and Miley Cyrus

    When dictionaries fail us, and Jody Rosen on the MTV Video Music Awards

    byAdam Chandler
  • The recording room at Hebrew University Library, c. 1930.(Library of Congress)
    The recording room at Hebrew University Library, c. 1930.(Library of Congress)
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    Hebrew U. Embraces English

    A vote to officially allow English at the Jerusalem institution is part of a longer history of Zionist concessions

    byLiora R. Halperin
  • (Collage Tablet Magazine; original photos Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images and Mojoey/Flickr.)
    (Collage Tablet Magazine; original photos Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images and Mojoey/Flickr.)
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    Jedi Is 7th Most Popular English Religion

    Jew or Jew not. There is no try.

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    Fwr Vwls 4 Futr Englsh?

    As Twitter and text messages force linguistic brevity, English starts to look more like vowel-free Hebrew

    byMya Guarnieri
  • (Abigail Miller/Tablet Magazine)
    (Abigail Miller/Tablet Magazine)
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    Slips of the Tongue

    What the use of Yiddish phrases can tell us about contemporary American Jewry

    byAri M. Brostoff
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