A country of Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Druze all speaking Hebrew as their native tongue? For anyone genuinely interested in Israel’s welfare, it would be a dream come true.

Medieval and modern Hebrew are unusually rich in abbreviations, but in a manner that is the reverse of English.

Of shlukh and shlokh.

“If there is no overriding reason for the Major to retain an awkward-sounding German name that our people finds hard to pronounce, . . . he [should] change it to a Hebrew one.”

But not Philologos.

A strange new case of linguistic evolution.

Despite the silly claims of two computer scientists.

In Hebrew, Arabic, English, German, or any other language, taboo words are curious things.

The story of the biblical word b’liya’al.

A modest suggestion for a new way of thinking about the original meaning of the word “Maccabee.”