Many people believe that when it comes to the Hebrew language, the Sephardic pronunciation is the correct one. It’s common to hear that this is the reason that modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation is ...

In her essay, “The Lasting Lessons Of A Shuttered Temple” (Back Of The Book, Oct. 13), Lori Silberman Brauner displayed a disturbing bias toward the way in which Eastern European Jews have ...

Various medieval sources refer to two different pronunciations of the Hebrew letter reš. Saadya Gaon reports that the scholars from Tiberias designated the two types of reš in their biblical reading ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a radiant spring morning in Jerusalem, a group of visitors walked into the Cultural and Educational Center at the ...

Don’t blame me if this week’s column is a bit technical. It’s by popular demand. No fewer than five readers have written to question the statement in my column of November 10 that “classical Hebrew ...

It doesn’t matter how great the authorities and how many the ignorant, it is still wrong to call our upcoming Torah Portion of the Week “Shoftim.” There are two syllables in this word, Sho– and ...