What does NASA mean in Hebrew? Some claim it means “to deceive,” but the answer is more complicated than that.

Hebrew Israelites have been in the news a lot this year. In January, a group called House of Israel provoked a confrontation between Catholic high school students from Kentucky and Native American ...

Hillel Smith, “Who Brings Forth Bread from the Land” (2016) (image courtesy Brandeis University Press) “A beautiful Hebrew letter, as I understand it, needs to have not only surface beauty but also an ...

In the 1980s, the king of minimalist fiction, Raymond Carver, published a story titled “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Both the story and the title have so permeated literary culture ...

I started speaking to my daughter in Hebrew pretty much the day she was born. It was part of a compromise between me and my Christian wife, who got to take her to church in return. The thinking was ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...

An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign) has been deciphered, showing that it is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew ...

Despite what you may have heard, Hebrew translation still works on X. But allegations that the platform had disabled translation for Hebrew went viral after Grok, the AI chatbot built into the ...