A new illustrated children’s book tells the story of a Jewish boy who has no friends and whose parents won’t let him play with anyone, fearful that other children actually may talk to him. He doesn’t ...

The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben ...

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NEW YORK — Eight pairs of eyes are trained on their teacher as he throws the oversized cardboard cube imprinted with Hebrew letters onto the table. Hands shoot into the air as soon as it lands, and ...

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the father of modern Hebrew. He was also the father of Ittamar Ben-Avi, who had his own ideas. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the late inventor of modern Hebrew, was feted recently in his ...

Teach modern Hebrew in the U.S. and invest in a relationship with Israel What if there were hundreds of thousands of people in the US and worldwide, Jews and non-Jews, who could speak modern Hebrew.

Beyond words, let us first look at word order. Modern Hebrew, as I will mention below again, is shaped after modern English languages. Ego-enlarging as they seem to be, they have the subject come ...

For a while now I’ve been hearing about a new translation of the Hebrew Bible, called Tanach Ram. (Tanakh, of course, is Hebrew for “Bible,” an acronym composed of Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi ...

Israeli linguist Ghil’ad Zuckerman, whose new Hebrew book, “Hebrew as Myth,” will appear this coming year, thinks I am wrong to call “denigrating” Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz’s use of the term ...

Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...