Let’s Get Idiomatic With “Latset”
The word יצאת (from לצאת – to “go out/come out”) plays an important role in everyday Hebrew slang
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Tahel Frosh and the Mountains of Spain
“… people with / money, so much money / that they retire to the mountains of Spain / and sunbathe in fancy villas / at the age of thirty-eight.”
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Dare to Be Different
It’s not always easy to be “different” – “shoné” in Hebrew – but today we tackle this word and its offshoots head-on.
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8 sounds you’ll hear on the Tel Aviv beach this summer
Summer has well and truly arrived, and what could be more relaxing than a day at the beach?
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Death of a Monk: Retelling the Damascus Affair
“I would ask your indulgence in reviving for a few moments the former, innocent image of Aslan, the image of a hollow-cheeked youth, whose days were as roses…”
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Meet the Patrons Part 3: Is Hebrew the Hardest Language?
We’re airing pieces of the Skype chat host Guy Sharett had with some of our Patrons in March. This is “Part 3” of the chat.
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The voices of snipers on the Israel Defense Forces radio station
“The voices of snipers can’t be heard over the radio waves of the IDF Station. / But they chose songs for us before they left. What songs do snipers like?”
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Meet the Patrons Part 2: Start-Up Secrets and Server Mishaps
We’re airing pieces of the Skype chat host Guy Sharett had with some of our Patrons in March. This is “Part 2” of the chat.
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Farewell to the Alexandrian Summer
“Alexandrian Summer” is a nostalgic, farewell portrait of a world that was fast expiring but still refused to see that history had written it off.
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Meet the Patrons Part 1: Don’t Let the Mistakes Get You Down!
Over the next three weeks we’ll be airing pieces of the Skype chat host Guy Sharett had with some of our Patrons in March.
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