The Hebrew root kallal or kal, means easy, simple or light.

Blatant anti-Semitism mingled with a thriving Jewish presence in this famous town, before the onset of the Holocaust.

Zionist wine lovers will certainly be pleased to hear that the biblical promise of “milk and honey” might be a metaphor for the white and red vintages that…

In The Retrospective (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pp. $26), adeptly translated by Stuart Schoffman, Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua shows himself to have serious metaphysical and theological

The root sin, khaf, lamed takes us to wisdom, success, cunning, eyesight and mystical power.

Today, everyone agrees that Hebrew roots have three letters, but the example of gimel, vet gives us cause to wonder.