Is the English-reading brain somehow different from the Hebrew-reading brain? You might not expect any major differences; after all, both languages are alphabetic and are read more or less ...

A few weeks ago, I gave a Dvar Torah in Hebrew and then in English. Both of the messages had the same content. Although my Hebrew is more fluent than English, my wife told me that the Dvar Torah in ...

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

One of my favorite studies is that of the Jewish religion. The Jews read not the Holy Bible but the Torah. This Hebrew word, Torah, is often translated in most English Bibles as ‘Law’; however, most ...