The word parliament originates from the French “parler,” meaning “to talk.” Pondering it is a good way to capture in a nutshell the whole brouhaha over the use of Arabic in the Knesset. Does “to talk” ...

Israeli politicians tells their own people one thing and English-speakers another, writes a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. Then he returned to Israel, and promptly tweeted, “These ...

[Speaking Hebrew] I’m currently sitting in my house—what’s left of the house. A house that turned into a battlefield. [Speaking Hebrew] Let’s do it in Hebrew, yes. My father is a Holocaust survivor.

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

It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...

For many people, the Hebrew language is only familiar from that time they went to their Jewish friend’s Bat Mitzvah back in seventh grade. But members of a new club on campus are looking to change ...

Today I took my final exam for my Ulpan class. The past four weeks, as I’ve briefly described, me and the rest of the study abroad students here at Tel Aviv University have been attending an intensive ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Inside a Hebrew Public school. Shalom, charter school? A nonprofit that launches ...

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat has become a hit in Israel because the ‘Kazakh’ he speaks in the movie is in fact perfect Hebrew ...