I’ve come to believe in the urgent necessity of Hebraization – not as cultural nostalgia or Zionist romanticism, but as civilizational repair. In the Jewish suburbs of North America, there is often ...

Altneuland is the first non-religious Hebrew publishing house to set up outside of Israel since the state was established.

Spoken by millions of Jews in Israel and around the world today, Hebrew was “literally nobody’s mother tongue” at some point of time in medieval history. Interestingly, Hebrew was a regular spoken ...

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 ...

A Hebrew proverb, 'If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?', stresses personal responsibility. It advises ...

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 ...

An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign) has been deciphered, showing that it is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew ...

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, ...

An ancient Hebrew proverb advises prompt visits to the sick. This wisdom extends beyond illness to all forms of hardship.

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...