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Modern Hebrew: The Epic Transformation of a Language

10:17 28 July by Rachel Gross

While teaching modern Hebrew in England and the United States, Norman Berdichevsky got a shock. Many of his students, he found, “were unable to utter a sentence in the modern language”—despite having attended Hebrew school at their synagogues for four or five years. “In modern...

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How America Got Its (Bus) Wheels Back

12:25 02 June by Sarah Breger

The story of how discount curbside buses have transformed the nature of intercity travel. With a detour to rabbinical court. And a 15-minute rest stop.

BOOK REVIEW | BARBARA PROBST SOLOMON

10:31 06 May by Gritt

BOOK REVIEW | BARBARA PROBST SOLOMON In Search of Peace at Auschwitz Peter Matthiessen (who died this April at the age of 86) possesses an extraordinary range of bona fides—co-founder of The Paris Review, world famous naturalist, explorer, author of myriad books and the only...

Vegan Cooking: Deliciously Metaphysical

16:59 06 May by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil

Vegan food: A metaphysical delight!

The Story of Sergey Brin

16:14 06 May by Mark Malseed

It takes a bit of searching to find Sergey Brin’s office at the Googleplex. Tucked away in a corner of Building #43 on this sprawling campus near the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, past rows of colorfully decorated cubicles and dorm-like meeting spaces, Office...

The Mysterious Tale of a Ukrainian University’s Anti-Semitic Crusade

21:16 12 October by Nadine Epstein

An anti-Semitic campaign at a Kiev institution—featuring former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, shadowy foreign agents and outlandish claims—ends almost as suddenly as it began.

How Going Green Will Make the World Safer for Jews–And Everyone Else

15:11 01 August by Robert S. Greenberger

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman is best known for his views on foreign affairs as expressed in his popular column and in his books, including From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World...