Is the English-reading brain somehow different from the Hebrew-reading brain? You might not expect any major differences; after all, both languages are alphabetic and are read more or less ...

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

Two simple one-syllable words, yet they are not so simple. The English “yes” comes from yea + si, meaning “so be it!,” a stronger yea. Shakespeare uses it only as an answer to a negative question. The ...

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The evening of Dec. 10 marks the start of Judaism's eight-night Festival of Lights, Hanukkah. Or is it Chanukah? Hanukka? The confusion over the spelling comes because the name of the holiday is a ...

The English word “reincarnation” robs the concept of its specificity of different places, times and cultures. The same can be said about “atonement.” Hayim Nahman Bialik, the great Hebrew poet of the ...