Spotted in the wild one of my less frequently used fonts, Ozrad CLM... on organic chestnuts.
ערמונים אורגניים בחוות התבלינים בבית לחם הגלילית. פונט "עוזרד".

#typography #Hebrew #fonts

מאיר אריאל - הולך בטל
https://lynkify.in/song/%D7%94%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9A-%D7%91%D7%98%D7%9C/Ey2xgRp4

#jukeboxFridayNight #StepByStep #Hebrew

A Hebrew Trio! Reading & Writing Program with free video courses at a winning price.

Make this trio part of your new year language learning journey.

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"In 2005, the 90-minute #documentary “#Hineini: #ComingOut in a #Jewish #HighSchool“ premiered as the first #film to center the lived experiences of a #queer Jewish #teen within a Jewish educational setting. Its title, “Hineini”—#Hebrew for “here I am”—is a word that appears in some of the most pivotal moments in Jewish text and tradition. It signals presence, readiness, accountability, and a willingness to step into the unknown. The #film intentionally draws on all these layers, inviting viewers to witness a story of courage, community tension, and the evolving formation of identity and culture within a pluralistic Jewish institution.

Watching “Hineini” nearly 20 years later offers a striking duality: a reminder of how far our community has come, and of the work that still remains."

https://www.jewishboston.com/read/hineini-the-film-that-said-here-i-am-and-still-does/

Today is Hebrew Language Day 🇮🇱

Hebrew Language Day is marked every year on the birthday of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the driving force behind the revival of Hebrew as a living, spoken language in modern times.

This year, the date of his birthday - on 21st of Tevet - falls on Shabbat, so Hebrew Language Day is being marked today, Thursday, January 8, 2026, instead.

In honor of the day, every year - the Academy of the Hebrew Language - invites the public to vote for the Word of the Year.

Thousands participated - and the word chosen was:

הַבַּיְתָה
Homeward
/ha-'bay-tah/

In second and third place:

בִּינָה מְלָאכוּתִית
Artificial Intelligence
/bee-'nah me-la-khoo-'teet/

תִּקְוָה
Hope
/teek-'vah/

Three words that say so much about this moment in time:

Returning home, technology, and hope.

Hebrew isn’t just a language.

It’s a living story - shaped by history, identity, longing, and renewal.

חַג עִבְרִית שָׂמֵחַ 🤍

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"The #Hanukkah attack did not come out of nowhere. #Antisemitism in #Australia was never abstract to me; it was visible and real. As a child, I remember #yeshiva students being harassed while walking down the street wearing #kippot, and car-bombing scares near a #Jewish institution in #Melbourne. Even when I didn’t fully grasp their seriousness, these incidents became part of the background noise of growing up Jewish in Australia.

#Oct7 marked a turning point, when the intensifying antisemitism across the country reached a fever pitch that has not abated. My mother and one of my brothers live within walking distance of Adass Israel #Synagogue, which was set on fire in 2024. In a separate incident that same year, East Melbourne #Hebrew Congregation was also set on fire during a Friday night gathering. These attacks were not distant news stories; they struck close to the places and people I know and love."

https://stljewishlight.org/opinion/commentary/the-australia-i-knew-and-the-one-we-face-today/

I am so grateful. For her to take the time and record such warm and lovely words touches my soul

#Review #Hebrew #Language #HebrewByInbal

How Do You Say Genocide in Hebrew?

What value is there in historically researching the concept of cultural genocide if one doesn’t resist it in real time?

Bilsky’s book, published in May 2024, makes no mention of #Gaza—despite the fact that by then, the #IDF had systematically destroyed universities, archives, libraries, mosques, and churches across the Strip. For a book devoted entirely to theorizing cultural genocide, the silence is not merely an oversight but a refusal to confront what the author’s own framework describes.

Bilsky’s subject is cultural genocide - destroying a people’s language, culture, and collective memory, not just their bodies. She analyzes how the #Eichmann trial suppressed this understanding, despite four key figures who recognized it: Raphael Lemkin (who coined “genocide”), Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, historian Salo Baron, and testimony-collection pioneer Rachel Auerbach.

בילסקי, ליאורה. 2024. איך אומרים ג’נוסייד בעברית? שלוש קריאות במשפט אייכמן. קו אדום כהה. בני ברק: הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד. 170 עמ’. ISBN: 978-965-02-1358-9.

English (transliteration):

Bilsky, Leora. 2024. Eikh Omrim Genocide Be’Ivrit? Shalosh Kri’ot Be’Mishpat Eichmann [How Do You Say Genocide in Hebrew? Three Readings of the Eichmann Trial]. Dark Red Line Series. Bnei Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing. 170 pp. ISBN: 978-965-02-1358-9.

Source (Hebrew): https://zoha.org.il/142536/

#books #hebrew #genocidestudies #gazagenocide #ethnocide #culturalgenocide

"In his #book Disasters of #Biblical Proportions: The Ten #Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World, Weitzman (a professor of #Hebrew and #Semitic #languages and #literature at the #University of #Pennsylvania and #author, among other #books, of The Origin of the #Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age) provides a history of how Jews, #Christians, and #Muslims have interpreted and reimagined the “rather sparse” account of each of the 10 plagues in the Book of #Exodus to reflect their own “personalities, beliefs, emotions, self-interest, and hopes for the future.” Retelling the #Bible “anachronistically,” Weitzman reminds us, is a “mode of creativity,” worthwhile in its own right but also for its role in keeping the Bible alive in people’s imaginations for more than 2,000 years.

In each of the 10 #chapters in his book, Weitzman examines a distinctive or puzzling feature of one of the plagues."

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-882062

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