Progress made during the past half century by the Hebrew language in reconstituting itself as a living tongue was cefebrated by Anglo Jewry during a period set aside as “Hebrew Week.” Sermons at ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Norway’s Sami people, an indigenous community with roots as reindeer herders in the northern reaches of Scandinavia and Russia, are looking south to Israel for help preserving their ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was a dead language. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, this liturgical language made a comeback as a modern tongue. Its revival is unprecedented, said Nancy Berg, a ...

Knesset to vote on first reading of 2026 state budget ...

Revival of the Hebrew Language in Palestine has been one of the miracles of the present epoch in Jewish history, according to Shloime Wiseman, principal of the Jewish Peoples’ Schools, who recently ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I learned the Hebrew alphabet when I was three years old in kindergarten. By Grade 1, at my Jewish day school, I was taking classes in ...

(RNS) While many older Americans gather to reminisce about parents and grandparents who spoke the Germanic-Hebrew language of Eastern and Central European Jews, a renewed interest in Yiddish is ...

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