Getting to the bottom of a root used in business, law and leisure.

The concept of a weekly day of rest is the gift of the Hebrew language to the world.

What do flutes, pores, pierced ears, mallets, curses and train conductors have in common?

Purim is a topsy-turvy holiday. By encouraging us to invert the norms of communal behavior, Purim teaches us the boundaries of those norms. Take the

Leave it to Hebrew to have two ways of saying 'gesundheit.'

Jean-Paul Sartre, in his existentialist play No Exit, posits that what you have actually done—not what you have been—is what defines your life. In Hebrew,

According to humorist Ephraim Kishon, when Israelis are asked לַעֲמד‭ ‬בַּתּר (la-amod ba-tor), to stand in line, there are always a “privileged few” who consider

Let’s take 18 minutes—the halakhic time limit for baking kosher-for-Passover matsot—to talk about roots related to the word matsa.