When we confess, we bang our chests on top of where our hearts are. Yet, the heart in classical Hebrew thought is not the seat of our feelings or love (‘With all my heart’) but the seat of our ...

As Greek language courses vanish and fluency declines among younger generations in Australia, is Greek on the brink of ...

Scientific and historical articles were published in the newly founded Hebrew press; poems and works of fiction were written in Hebrew slowly creating a modern Hebrew idiom appropriate for the times.

Yehuda, known as the father of modern Hebrew, worked to revive the language as a spoken one, he believed it would be a tool to rapidly foster a sense of unity among olim, Jewish immigrants to the land ...

Lamenting the death toll in Gaza and questioning Israeli policy in the West Bank, Smol Emuni US holds a conference in NYC.

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Most remarkably, Chastellux’s idea uncannily came true in the modern State of Israel, where a revivified spoken Hebrew now serves as the official government language. The notion of an almost ...

The Trump administration thinks appealing to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un by dangling promises of prosperity in front of ...

Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...