The Imperative
Often the ‘real’ imperative of our language sounds archaic to us, so we use the future instead. Here’s a short manual to the Hebrew imperative.
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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…
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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
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The X Factor in Hebrew
Yes, you can learn Hebrew from pop culture. StreetWise Hebrew looks at the language of Israeli reality TV
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Sir Moses Montefiore: a world Jewish leader before such even existed – The Tel Aviv Review
Lia Tarachansky discusses her film; Prof. Motti Regev talks to us about his new book; and Abigail Greentalks to us about Sir Moses Montefiore.
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Rogel Alpher with ‘micro novelist’ Alex Epstein – Journeys
Alex Epstein started writing as a young kid, in an attempt to imagine exciting alternatives to his life. The result of this life-long endeavor is his varied oeuvre, consisting of fantastical short stories. Famous for his so-called micro-fiction – ‘one-line stories’ – Alex’s work has been translated into English, Russian, Greek. In 2003,…
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I’ll Be Back in the Afternoon
In Hebrew, צוהריים means noon and אחר הצוהריים means afternoon. But the actual afternoon hours, the ones we Israelis think of as afternoon, may be completely different than your own. So what do we mean when we say, “call me in the afternoon”? Guy explains
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Rogel Alpher with Marina Toshich – Journeys
Born an only child in Sarajevo, Marina Toshich was influenced by the culturally diverse music scene found in the streets of her Bosnian capital. Throughout her life, Marina experimented with cultural activities ranging from plastic art, piano, horseback riding, and swimming at the 1985 Maccabiah Games in Israel. After the Gulf War in…
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Mishpachot
What Hebrew language teachings can we pick up from documentary TV series “Mishpachot,” by the Heymann Brothers? The series is composed of five Israeli families who utilize many different layers of the language
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