Arts & Culture

Accent and Pronunciation

October 1, 2013 0:09:39

Today, I’ll give you a few tips: how to improve your accent and pronunciation in Hebrew. There are many things you can do on your own, at home

Rogel Alpher with Akin Ajayi – Journeys

October 1, 2013

Brought up in London, 6 year old Akin Ajayi had to change his residence to the hot-noisy-sweaty-crowded Lagos. Lagos is the largest city in southwestern Nigeria. He treated that as an adventure, but went through stages where he felt homesick. Although his English was impeccable Akin had a tough time making new friends as…

סחבק – Sahbak

September 24, 2013 0:09:56

What’s “sahbak”? In Arabic it means your friend, but what’s the meaning in Hebrew? And what’s sahbakiya? And there’s even a verb, lehistahbek

Ata or At?

September 17, 2013 0:08:20

In Hebrew, the default form is the masculine form. But what happens when a navigation application speaks to women as if they were guys?

Ima Polanyia

August 28, 2013 00:08:52

Polish mother or Jewish mother? What does “Ima Polanyia” mean in contemporary Hebrew?

The family in Israel: Orthodox, unorthodox and sometimes both

June 7, 2013

The editors of a special issue of the Israel Studies Review, entitled The Family in Israel, discuss the 17 papers it encompasses, each tackling a different aspect of the latest trends in the reformulation of family structures across the board of contemporary Israeli society.