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Orly Lavi Travish

May 31, 2026, 1:45 AM

Humbling or Humiliating? Why Language Teachers Are Here to Stay

Imagine celebrating one of your proudest professional milestones, only to discover that an algorithm told your friends and colleagues you had been publicly humiliated. That is exactly what happened to me recently. I was thrilled to share on social...

May 30, 2026, 10:13 AM

Gender-Rich and Gender-Poor Languages

There is more than one road to Dublin. Different societies can move in different linguistic directions and still converge on the same human values. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Poetess and Avtorka Languages evolve. But they do not always evolve in the same direction — even when societies claim to pursue the same values. Consider English. Once upon a time, feminine professional forms were common: poetess authoress doctoress actress Today, many...

May 27, 2026, 11:33 PM

Kaki: A Brief Philological Inquiry Prompted by Two Men on My Street

The Hebrew Bible has words for excrement. Tzo’ah appears in Deuteronomy — waste must be buried outside the camp, because God walks among you. The Talmud tractate Berakhot rules on where one may and may not recite the Shema...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 27, 2026, 11:18 AM

Europe Needs Israel to Join the European Union

Europe is careening toward strategic irrelevance as Iranian proxies tighten their noose around its southern flank and radical Islam spreads through its streets and no-go zones. Israel is the hard-power partner the European Union can no longer afford to...

May 20, 2026, 4:23 AM

Demystifying Gender

What began as grammatical classification slowly expanded into a system for interpreting human identity, perception, and meaning. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

How a Grammatical Word Became a Metaphysical System Many people struggle to grasp the concept of gender — myself included. There are countless forums where people sincerely ask others to explain what “gender” means. Long threads follow. Articles are linked. Videos...

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

May 18, 2026, 8:44 AM

Acute onset aliyah-induced shyness and me

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I limited my Hebrew small talk to 'slicha' (excuse me) and 'todah' (thank you), and it mostly worked. Until the day I brazenly attempted sarcasm in Hebrew

May 12, 2026, 9:31 AM

The Ephod in My Glove Compartment

There is a fluorescent yellow vest in my car. Israeli law requires it. Every vehicle in the country must carry one, and every driver who steps out onto an intercity road must put it on. The law went into...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 10, 2026, 12:59 AM

Iyyar is in the Air – ziv & iyyar

As the month of Iyyar comes to a close this week, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss the two names for “the second month” in the Jewish Calendar — Ziv and Iyyar. That month is very special...

May 9, 2026, 11:52 AM

Russia Is the Outskirts of Ukraine

Painting “Apple Trees in Blossom. In Little Russia,” artist Nikolai Sergeyev, 1895. Public domain.

Note: This article is a translation of my Russian-language piece «Россия — это окраина Украины» (“Russia Is the Outskirts of Ukraine”), originally written on December 15, 2025. I postponed translating it because it relies heavily on Russian- and Ukrainian-specific...

Arnon Rubinstein

May 8, 2026, 6:15 PM

The emperor has no clothes

המלך הוא עירום ‘The emperor has no clothes’ is an idiom describing a situation where a widely accepted, obvious truth is ignored or denied by a group due to fear, social pressure, or vanity. It highlights collective denial where people...

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