The concept of a weekly day of rest is the gift of the Hebrew language to the world.

Among the derivatives of the Hebrew root ‭resh, khaf, lamed are biblical spice, perfume merchants and‭ ‬rumormongers and scandalmongers.

What do flutes, pores, pierced ears, mallets, curses and train conductors have in common?

Purim is a topsy-turvy holiday. By encouraging us to invert the norms of communal behavior, Purim teaches us the boundaries of those norms. Take the

Aviya Kushner has written a work of popular scholarship that has a point or two to make about what the Bible has come to mean to English speakers.

Leave it to Hebrew to have two ways of saying 'gesundheit.'

Jean-Paul Sartre, in his existentialist play No Exit, posits that what you have actually done—not what you have been—is what defines your life. In Hebrew,

According to humorist Ephraim Kishon, when Israelis are asked לַעֲמד‭ ‬בַּתּר (la-amod ba-tor), to stand in line, there are always a “privileged few” who consider