Trump's executive orders aimed at education aren't about language as much as they are about shutting down other perspectives.

Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill explains why he finds the ancient collection of books that make up the Bible fascinating.

Legend has it that nearly two and a half centuries before President Trump declared English as the official language of the ...

The Egyptians sought not merely to enslave, but also to put an end to, the people of Israel. One way of doing so was to kill all male children. Another was simply to interrupt normal family life.

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Throughout its 83-year history, VOA has been regularly underfunded, according to historian Alan Heil. As recently as 2009, it ...

One of the first (and most meaningful) decisions you'll make as a parent is selecting your little one's name. If you're drawn ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely ...

A scholar of Jewish languages argues that Trump's use of the Hebrew word meaning hello, goodbye and peace stokes antisemitism ...

Software developers sometimes encounter a “bug” in a computer program. Not wanting to spend the effort to try to fix the bug, they will insert some code in the program that at least temporarily ...