Heritage words add a new wrinkle to an old tradition, writes a linguistics scholar.

The Talmud, along with generations of scholars since, have made the remarkable point that the Torah and the Bible are ...

One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they tried to hide things from us.

Malaysians are questioning why a vehicle registered in the country is openly displaying a message in Hebrew, a language ...

Sometimes when people's short-term memories begin to falter, they recall the first languages that they learned.

JACKSON - When dozens of township residents stepped up to the microphone to speak out against new religious use ordinances, they may have been simply trying to speak out against a potentially ...

In the short story “Frieda and Her Golem,” the titular character, a lonely rabbinical student, takes inspiration from the Jewish lore of the golem and builds a companion out of meatloaf (being sure to ...

We must contemplate how we can harness the power of our words for good, for making a difference in what has become a path ...