For some Sephardic Jews today, holidays provide a rare opportunity to hear the now-endangered Judeo-Spanish language.

This fall, Tucson Hebrew Academy launched a full-fledged Spanish program, expanding on what was formerly a middle school ...

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The Academy of the Hebrew Language's website was breached by Iran-linked hackers on Wednesday, with users encountering a threatening message in English when they entered the site. Iranian hackers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The message left by the Handala hackers. (photo credit: SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT) “There is no need to learn Hebrew anymore. You ...

In this episode, we welcome Professor Ben Saul from the University of Sydney who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ...

Japanese pioneer Hebraist Takamitsu Muraoka died last week in Leiden, the Netherlands, at age 88, after suffering a stroke a few weeks earlier and never fully recovering. A specialist in Semitic ...

I recently initiated a poll in my WhatsApp group for Hebrew educators, asking a simple question: “Does the Super Bowl belong in a Hebrew lesson?” The results were telling. The majority of my ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

Arabic and Hebrew belong to the Semitic language family, a group of languages spoken primarily throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia, though speakers can be found all around the globe. They are ...

Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Boston, and Hollywood, Florida, the festival spotlights Hebrew not only as an ancient language, but as a living, evolving tongue.

Israelis chose the Hebrew word for “homecoming” as the word of the year, the Academy of the Hebrew Language announced Thursday. The Academy asked the public for suggestions for words that summarized ...