Want to learn Hebrew? Like anything else these days, there's an app for that too. eTeacher's Modern Hebrew application offers 20 free Hebrew lessons recorded and taught by Shira Cohen Regev, one of ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a page of the Talmud has come with a bevy of barriers to entry. Written mostly in Aramaic, the Talmud in its most commonly printed form also lacks punctuation ...

Hebrew became the eighth language on Monday through which online shoppers can access the world’s largest e-commerce site, Amazon.com. The online retail behemoth launched a new Hebrew-language ...

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...

For 24 years, literary scholar Robert Alter has been working on a new translation of the Hebrew Bible and — "this may shock some of your listeners," he warns — he's been working on it by hand. "I'm ...