Arts & Culture

Rogel Alpher with Orphaned Land’s Kobi Farhi – Journeys

Orphaned Land fuses progressive, doom and death metal with Arabic folk music. Kobi Farhi, co-founder and lead singer of the band, says growing up in Jaffa inspired him to write about co-existence.

Read More

Rogel Alpher with rock legend Ronnie Peterson – Journeys

One of Israel’s foremost blues and rock’n’roll guitarists was born in Germany to an American father and a German mother. He came to Tel Aviv for a short visit in the 1980s, and has never left.

Read More

Can You…?

How do you ask an Israeli to do something for you without sounding like a bossy-pants?

Read More

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Relationships are hard. Here are some Hebrew slang terms to express your undying love — or lack thereof — with your significant other.

Read More

I’m Absolutely Fine

The word beseder means okay, alright, and is one of the first words you learn in Hebrew. But where did it come from and what does it literally mean? And what’s the connection to the Ashdod Port?

Read More

The Imperative

Often the ‘real’ imperative of our language sounds archaic to us, so we use the future instead. Here’s a quick how-to on the Hebrew imperative

Read More

Rogel Alpher with artist Hanoch Piven – Journeys

Ernesto Piven was 11 years old when he moved to Israel and became Hanoch. Initially feeling like an outsider, he began drawing caricatures. Eventually he moved to New York and achieved international success as an illustrator and caricaturist. But something was missing…

Read More

Saying It Twice

​Why do we sometimes repeat the same word twice in Hebrew? Mashu-mashu, gever-gever, for example. Today we’ll talk about reduplication in Hebrew and… about Belize

Read More

The X Factor in Hebrew

Yes, you can learn Hebrew from pop culture. StreetWise Hebrew looks at the language of Israeli reality TV

Read More