What Iran Learned from North Korea about Nuclear Weapons
And what the U.S. has failed to learn.
September 7, 2017
The Three-Year-Old Child Who Became Hebrew’s First Native Speaker after a Two-Thousand-Year Hiatus
Eliezer and Itamar Ben-Yehudah.
Hebrew ceased to be anyone’s native tongue around the 2nd century CE. In 19th-century Europe, Jews attempted to revive Hebrew as a modern language, but only as a literary one. It was the quixotic and determined Eliezer Ben-Yehudah who first envisioned bringing the language fully back to life. Lewis Glinert, author of the recently published The Story of Hebrew, explains what this entailed:
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How to Put BDS out of Business
Follow the money.
France Continues Its Coverup of an Anti-Semitic Murder
Why did the police stand haplessly outside of Sarah Halimi’s apartment?
The Three-Year-Old Child Who Became Hebrew’s First Native Speaker after a Two-Thousand-Year Hiatus
Eliezer and Itamar Ben-Yehudah.
Clay Seals Provide Evidence of 8th-Century Israelite Refugees Coming to Jerusalem
Where they took up important administrative roles.