Ladino was once spoken by Jews expelled from Spain. Stanford scholar Nesi Altaras is immersed in the language of that lost ...

The “Lebanese mud,” as the Hebrew phrase has it, never seems quite to be finally scraped off the IDF’s boots. The ...

A Merriam-Webster post claiming “marijuana” is the only English word with a silent “j” sparked debate, as users questioned the claim and shared examples like “hallelujah.” ...

He'll thank you when his whole name fits on that little license plate at the souvenir shop.

The Book of Joshua, however, lends itself easily to misinterpretation, as it recounts the conquest and occupation of a land ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...

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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 ...

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