Sacred Jewish texts almost always refer to God using masculine imagery and grammar. God is routinely referred to with male metaphors — Father, Lord, King — and with male pronouns. Hebrew being a ...

This phenomenon shows how, in this moment of crisis and struggle, there is an opportunity to rebuild Jewish identity by connecting to a new kind of Hebrew. Language can serve as a gateway to exploring ...

A new exhibit at YIVO, “Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel before 1948,” starts then, in the mid sixteenth century. (See box.) “There are fragments of four letters written by ...

This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...

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 ...