Arts & Culture

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?

‘Be Well’ and Other Sign-Offs

August 24, 2013 00:08:34

Tihye bari means “be well”. When do we use it, and what are the other ways to sign off a message in Hebrew?

Bro, How Do You Say “Dude” in Hebrew?

August 20, 2013 00:05:52

You’ll hear ‘achi’ (‘brother’) on the street all the time, but in which contexts should you use it? Can women use it? Guy Sharett explains.

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.