New works from Israel's most celebrated novelists mine the depths of gloom and optimism, revenge and loyalty, love and hate.

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,