The enforcement of Hebrew as a compulsory spoken language is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment, even in Palestine. Two young men, Berditchevski and Katz, members of the “Gdud Maginei Ha ‘Safa” ...

Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Boston, and Hollywood, Florida, the festival spotlights ...

Language is a powerful connection to our past. These languages are not just old words; they are living pieces of history, passed down from generation to generation, carrying with them stories, ...

The first Hebrew schools were established in these communities; Hebrew increasingly became a spoken language of daily affairs, and finally became a systematic and national language. Yet Ben Yehuda's ...

Israeli scholarship is widely cited the world over. But if state linguists have their way, much of that research will become a whole lot less accessible to those who don’t speak Hebrew. The Academy of ...

A total of 165,632 Jews of the total Jewish population of 175,006 in Palestine record Hebrew as their spoken tongue, according to census figures made known. In the previous census only 82,000 ...

A Hasidic story relating to the season of penitence and atonement recently observed in the Jewish community tells of the unlettered young shepherd boy, who, toward the end of the daylong prayers and ...

“My girlfriend’s grandmother spoke Ladino. Her family was originally from Spain and moved to Greece following the Spanish expulsion of 1492. What features of Hebrew does Ladino have? Is it like ...