Heritage words add a new wrinkle to an old tradition, writes a linguistics scholar.
Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.
Decades later, Krasznahorkai gave the name Korin to the doomed archivist who narrates his 1999 novel War and War — turning ...
In English medical vocabulary Greek words, Latin words, and hybrid combinations contribute about 76% of the total. In ...
The quest to clarify and correct Riga's Jewish story began decades ago. Thanks to activists, experts and the ground itself, ...
Sympathy with the Jews in Nazi-held Poland was demonstrated this Rosh Hashanah by Poles in Warsaw gathering in groups near ...
I was 21 and broke in Miami, and I’d heard that a Jewish restaurant needed staff. Aside from the fact that I knew I’d be a ...
On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, a man got into his car, checked his mirrors, and decided this would be a ...
Greetings from Invercargill, New Zealand, where I am speaking in towns in the southern part of the South Island. “When the ...
The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing ...

Two Years and One Day

Now it’s two years and a day. That’s how long it’s been since Arab terrorists stormed across the border into Israel, shooting ...