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 ...

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 ...

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The Jewish people have a long and undeniable connection to the Land of Israel, as evidenced by centuries of archaeological evidence, Biblical history, and a continuous Jewish presence. Yet this ...

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 ...