סחבק – Sahbak
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
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Ata or At?
Hebrew’s default is masculine form. But what happens when a navigation application speaks to women as if they were guys?
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Oh, Come on Already!
The word כבר, meaning “already,” has so many functions in modern Hebrew that we decided to dedicate an entire episode to it.
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‘We have met the enemy and he is us’
Ilene, Noah and special guest Miriam Herschlag discuss whether we have lost the moral high-ground.
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The family in Israel: Orthodox, unorthodox and sometimes both
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.
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Is social justice always subordinate to security?
Ilene, Noah and special guest Miriam Herschlag discuss whether the social protests of three years ago had any effect.
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