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Dear TINAU Community, In the midst of war's chaos and uncertainty, our unity and shared experiences become beacons of strength. As a...

The notion of “standard language” is not a linguistic notion. Rather, it reflects structures of power and authority. -- Noam Chomsky,...

TINAU's Hebrew Transliteration System Learning Hebrew and Arabic with their original scripts, rather than relying on transliteration, is...

We, the undersigned Israel-based civil society and human rights organizations, call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and...

Hebrew Revival Struggles By the end of the 19th century, those working on the revival of the Hebrew language had a problem. There were...

How can we even think of the future when we are engulfed by the horrors of the present? It’s almost impossible. In the terrible war of...

To the This is Not an Ulpan Community, Like many of you, I too am experiencing the difficult days in which we are faced with the horrors,...

A shopkeeper in a market wrote this sign noting the price of horns so commonly used in demonstrations these days across the country. It...

Red, black, white and green – the colors of the Palestinian flag… and of watermelons. The Watermelon as a Palestinian Symbol In occupied...

During the background interviews I did for the "Hebrew Al-Quds" article of "Jerusalem State" in the fall of 2019, I spoke with a public...

عيد البنات עיד אלבנאת During the years of exile, Jewish communities around the world would create unique traditions around the cycle of...

A quick guide The challenge Hebrew is a binary gendered language. That means that all nouns and adjectives, as well as almost all...

If you’re reading this blogpost, it may not come as a shock to you that in 1948, Israel needed a solution to a mass influx of Jewish immigrants from all over the world as well as find a mechanism to legitimize the new nation state - quickly. Israel’s answer, which was really Eliezer Ben Yehudah’s answer (the father of modern Hebrew), was to use the Hebrew language and Hebrew education, to create a hegemonic-Hebrew speaking- Israel . The solution to the immigration influx and

About pronouns and sex English leaves its options open in practice each I has all the options you is he or she I is sexless there’s no...

The kidnapping and disappearance of thousands of toddlers from families of new immigrants around the founding of the State of Israel.