A nonprofit that launches modern-Hebrew-language public schools is hoping New Haven gets a chance to offer that greeting. The New York-based nonprofit, Hebrew Public , is working to finish an ...

Hebrew revivalists chose a difficult way of life by speaking only Hebrew, before it could meet the needs of modern life. Gradually, the language was standardized in the early 20th century.

The text relates how King Mesha of Moab (in modern Jordan) defeated the Kingdom of Israel. Some scholars believe that a word on the stone slab with several Hebrew letters missing may be a reference to ...

A linguistic revolution is underway in the quest for more gender-inclusive language for Hebrew, whose modern form adopted grammatical norms from 3,000 years ago. Not everybody is on board.

Under the influence of Jewish nationalism and Zionism, modern Hebrew was revived as a spoken language by Hebrew language advocates, none more important than Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Ben-Yehuda coined many ...

The event will take place in the Steinhardt Hall Auditorium at Penn Hillel. Credit: Hannah Lazar Gil Hovav — the great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew — will speak at an ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official governing body of the modern Hebrew language, announced on Monday that from now on the Hebrew alphabet will consist of 23 letters.

So the reverse spelling of COVID has nothing to do with the name, and "Divoc" is also not a word in Hebrew, Joseph Benatov, director of the modern Hebrew language program at the University of ...

As the director of the Modern Hebrew Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Joseph Benatov supports the use of Duolingo, and other similar online resources, ...