One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

People don’t always turn against others, they simply decide to forget them. Parshas Shemot opens with a verse that feels ...

Two courses in Old Testament literature and Hebrew history will be given in the School of Religion at the University of Kansas, with the full college credit. The courses will be under the direction of ...

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This article forms a broad overview of the history of Judaism, from its beginnings until the present day. The history of Judaism is inseparable from the history of Jews themselves. The early part of ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published Feb. 29, 2016. This year is Leap Year in both the secular Gregorian calendar — the one most of the world goes by — and in the Hebrew calendar.