The Hebrew word ḥ eshbon, pronounced “khesh-BONE” (with the second vowel halfway between an “o” and an “aw”), can mean sum, arithmetic, bank account or bill, and is also found in a ...

For those who want to connect with their Jewish roots, check out our roundup of beautiful Hebrew baby girl names. Whether you want a name that’s more on the traditional side of things (think ...

Shalom is a beautiful Hebrew word that does not translate well to English. The English Bible hardly gives it justice, often translated merely as “peace.” But shalom is so much more.

It has been suggested that "divoc" is a Hebrew word that means "possession by an evil spirit." One post on Twitter with more than 500 likes at the time of writing states: "COVID becomes DIVOC ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis.The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth ...

In his poem “Only in Hebrew” Meir Wieseltier says, “Only in Hebrew beautiful/rhymes with coffee,/a doctor with a baker.” To carry this further: coffee, beautiful, doctor, baker—they all ...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette posted the first four words to the Mourner’s Kaddish in Hebrew on the front page of their Friday newspaper ...

Yiddish isn't Hebrew — it's a Germanic language, like English and Dutch, and many of its words have related equivalents in English — but since it's culturally Jewish (that's what Yiddish means ...

For those who want to connect with their Jewish roots, check out our roundup of beautiful Hebrew baby girl names. Whether you want a name that’s more on the traditional side of things (think ...