Development Site - Changes here will not affect the live (production) site.
 

Translation

In the end, one doesn’t know what to be struck by more: the fact that a computer can translate Hebrew at all, or the fact that when it does, it does so atrociously.

July 6 2022 12:01AM

The Hebrew of the Bible has many more ands than does modern English prose, a feature that’s surprisingly crucial to its literary power.

Jan. 26 2022 12:01AM

Adin Steinsaltz, in memoriam.

Aug. 10 2020 12:01AM

The rabbinic tradition got it right.

Laura Quick
July 24 2020 12:01AM

Experts think they are the real biblical eagles.

Reuters
June 12 2020 12:01AM

Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees!

John Wilson
May 21 2020 12:01AM

Hersh Nomberg, Zalman Shneur, and the plight of the “plucked” hero.

Ri J. Turner
May 4 2020 12:01AM

And one verse of Isaiah.

Philip Kosloski
March 13 2020 12:01AM

A Columbia professor condemns an Arab author for accepting the Israel Prize.

Peter Theroux
Feb. 5 2020 12:01AM

Alter Leyb Robinson and his friend, Shabbos.

Chen Malul
Jan. 13 2020 12:01AM

Meet the oryx.

Amit Naor
Dec. 11 2019 12:00AM

Pseudo-archaic poetry, foreign vocabulary, and webs of references.

Edward Greenstein
Sept. 6 2019 12:01AM

Chaim Grade’s Christmas tree.

Barbara Finkelstein
June 27 2019 12:01AM

The Hexapla in the Genizah.

Benjamin Kantor
March 27 2019 12:01AM