A “Hebrew” was for them an American Jew who spoke or aspired to speak a proper English, to adopt American ways and to be outwardly no different from his Christian neighbors; since these neighbors went ...

Some schools are bringing in teachers from Israel. It's a costly effort that seems to be working. This story is sponsored by the Avi Chai Foundation. Teaching students Hebrew is a top priority for the ...

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 ...

Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a camp-specific hybrid language register called Camp ...

Yosef S. Razin in an article in the Times of Israel titled “Avraham: Guilt and Faith in the Fiery Furnace” November 5, 2020 says: “Abraham in the fiery furnace, a well known story though it does not ...

For Amy Guenther, the shift to Torah observance was swift and unexpected. About a decade ago, one of her friends started creating Facebook posts suggesting that Christians should be keeping the laws ...

Donald Trump has enlisted a diverse lineup of six clergy to pray him into office at his upcoming inauguration ceremony. Three draw on Jewish ritual objects and ideas in their practices, like Torah and ...

Dr. Howard Tucker, Tzvi Hersh ben Chaim Herzl, passed away on Dec. 22, 2025, at the age of 103. Known around the world as the ...

Hadar’s “The Devash Jr. Book of Shemot” sends a powerful message: Our children are full members of this tradition, and their ...

Is the English-reading brain somehow different from the Hebrew-reading brain? You might not expect any major differences; after all, both languages are alphabetic and are read more or less ...

The religious language that lay dormant for millennia is now global, used by millions of people around the world—including in China. The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, is ...