From day schools to summer camps, charter schools to online classes, a diverse range of students are studying the language
Judah Monis and the failure of evangelizing translation as a spiritual exercise in early colonial America
Without knowing the language, there was no way to fully participate in my community—not in the way I wanted to
Jewish summer camps offer kids a unique linguistic landscape
Nineteen years after Hanoch Levin’s early death from bone cancer, the great Israeli playwright’s bleak, searing poetry is finally translated into English
Hebrew studies are now legitimate in the desert kingdom, but demand is low—so far
The late, spaced-out Israeli artist would have been 84 this week
Now there’s a word for it…
A glimpse into the late Israeli writer’s magical workshop, as his Hebrew editor illuminates the master’s attention to language and craft
The great Jewish writer on his linguistic and literary heritage, the Bohemian way, and the catastrophic modern break between Jews old and new
An ancient, tiny book cataloging the components of the cosmos: was it magic, Kabbalah, a philosophical treatise, or something else?
Don’t call it a Smycka: From now on, there’s a kosher word for that
For me, learning Hebrew was a way to fit in as a Russian immigrant growing up in Israel. For the kids in my Hebrew school class in California, the language meant something entirely different.
On the gridiron or the movie set, the Chosen Ones love some traditional ink
The language of the Bible just got stupider, courtesy of Facebook commenters (and the Academy of the Hebrew Language)
Israeli typographer Liron Lavi Turkenich has married two ancient languages in script, and it’s legible
Meet the Israeli rapper behind The Promised Land, a Hebrew-language Grateful Dead cover band that recently performed in New York, a breeding ground for Deadheads
The actress, nominated for an Oscar for her role in ‘Jackie,’ is a sort of First Lady to the stars: an example of class onscreen or, well, when teaching Hebrew slang
