Parents who have small children learning about celebrations from different cultures at school may be looking for ways to ...

To write for the drawer (from Russian писать в стол or писать в ящик, in Polish we say pisać do szuflady, which is somewhat similar to Russian, except we use the Latin alphabet with our tails: ą, ę, ć ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Discover which Hebrew words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Hebrew with audio.

The University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution founded by Benjamin Franklin, is home to distinguished alumni who ...

Regular readers of this column know that two of my favorite subjects are history and language. How fortunate, then, when both ...

Why do some names get “upcycled” through the years yet others fade away – and what are the rules if you want to change names?

Scriptural Misappropriation. Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses the possibility that a witness might sign a document using his father’s name alone, without his name, as an i ...

In 1979 the Oriental Institute at Baroda published a paper entitled The Hebrews belong to a branch of Vedic Aryans This was a followup to a previous article on the same topic published by the same aut ...

Cylinders discovered in 2004 are inscribed with the earliest known examples of letters, say archaeologists. Clay cylinders ...

Researchers have pinpointed the slang words Minnesotans were curious enough about this year to hit up Google in the pursuit ...

First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.