‘My master’ vs. ‘my husband’
God Himself wants the relationship between husband and wife to be one of partnership and not one of mastery
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Curse words pepper common speech and writing nowadays in ways that undermine nuance and cheapen language
View ArticleHow do you say ‘terror’?
Modern Hebrew has no word for it, but the Bible does, along with a lesson about truth and peace
View ArticleEpic quest is documenting the ‘miracle’ of the Hebrew language
Researchers are painstakingly building lexicon of every word in ancient tongue through to its modern incarnation
View ArticlePast unreal conditional
How to respond to the self-appointed modestly police when you don't know the language
View ArticleA Hebrew charter school takes a not-so-Jewish trip to Israel
As a recipient of public funding, Brooklyn's Hebrew Language Academy to avoid Jewish topics, instead focus on Israeli culture
View ArticleWho’s selling treasures from the Valmadonna Trust Library? Depends who you ask
Months after the finest and largest private collection of Jewish books was acquired for the National Library of Israel, some of its most valuable selections are up for auction
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