Four readers — Martin Flax, Gerald Weiss, Steve Oren and Gil Kulick — have written to scold me for mistakenly equating the biblical name Barak, meaning “lightning,” with the presidential name Barack ...
The festival of lights, better known as the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, has begun. And whether you celebrate the holiday or not, there always tends to be confusion on how to spell the name of the ...
The Hebrew word for "like" - that is "akin to," not "hold in endearment" - is the prefix k'-, written as a single letter kaf. By DR. JOEL M. HOFFMAN JANUARY 24, 2008 19:24 ...