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
The extraordinary true cloak-and-dagger tale of how a chance encounter in a London bookstore made peace possible, on the 25th anniversary of the Israel-Jordan accords
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
To celebrate its 21st birthday, the popular craft brewery is releasing a very special ‘Jewbelation’ edition
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