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Hebrew

The Hebrew word "emet," meaning truth. (Flickr user zeevveez CC SA 3.0)
Posted inOpinion

Nonbinary Hebrew transforms the language for everyone

by Lior Gross June 5, 2025June 5, 2025

How do people who go by they/them pronouns in English refer to themselves in Hebrew? What do you call the Jewish rite of passage ceremony for a nonbinary tween? What […]

Steph Curry wearing a hoodie adorned with Hebrew prior to Game 4 of the NBA Finals, June 10, 2022. (Photo/Twitter-@2974Collection)
Posted inSports

The scoop on Steph Curry’s Hebrew hoodie at Game 4

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher June 15, 2022June 17, 2022
“Moses Sees the Promised Land From Afar” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

Why the Torah’s itty-bitty aleph has such huge meaning

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg March 11, 2022March 10, 2022
(Meduyeket/James Conway/JTA Collage by Grace Yagel)
Posted inGames

Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions.

by Michelle Krasovitski and JTA January 25, 2022January 25, 2022
From "The Divine Comedy" by Gustave Dore.
Posted inOpinion

Why our preferred pronoun for God should be ‘they’

by Mark Silk and RNS September 29, 2021September 29, 2021
A selection of He'Brew beers
Posted inOrganic Epicure

After 25 years, iconic S.F.-founded He’Brew beer shuts off the tap

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and Forward September 29, 2021October 7, 2021
Middle East School II, one of the several schools located at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, in Monterey, Aug. 6, 2002. (Photo/JTA-Kim Kulish-Corbis via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

Elite U.S. military language school in Monterey drops Hebrew

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 8, 2021April 8, 2021
Effi Hertzke, 81, in an Israeli TV news segment that went viral. (Screenshot)
Posted inOpinion

The remarkable linguistics of Israel’s beloved American gym bubbe

Sharon Avni by Sharon Avni and JTA February 25, 2021February 25, 2021
A young Flory Jagoda, the woman who would go on to become the doyenne of Ladino music.
Posted inOpinion

We’re running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages. Here’s how we can stop them from being lost forever.

Sarah Bunin Benor by Sarah Bunin Benor and JTA February 9, 2021
A Nov. 2020 session of Temple Isaiah's JQuest Hebrew school. (Photo/Courtesy Temple Isaiah)
Posted inEditorial

Learning Hebrew in an hour a week? It’s complicated

by J. Editorial Board November 27, 2020November 25, 2020

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