Hebrew

NVIDIA's Parakeet beats Whisper on Android — but can you teach it Hebrew, or just your own jargon? Two answers, one much happier.

Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them?

A booklet, five methods, and 17,000 name changes in a single year — how Israel turned Diaspora surnames into Hebrew ones.

Reincarnation is absent from the Hebrew Bible and Talmud — so how did gilgul become central to Kabbalah and Hasidic life?

Your TTS reads Hebrew words with English phonetics. Here's why — and why the obvious fix doesn't work yet.

Balagan, matkot, and tailgating in the Negev: what explains Israel's loud, urgent tempo — and why "security" isn't the answer.

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language is finally standardizing how place names get written in English — but the Q on the signs has survived every...

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language can coin words the state must use — but it can't make anyone say them. Why 10 million speakers might be the...

The Puritans banned alcohol? Invented happy hour rules? A look at what they actually did — and the 1781 hoax we still quote.

The anxious, overthinking Jewish personality — where did it actually come from? The answer isn't what you'd expect.

Languages fork like codebases — and the merge button doesn't exist. Who actually decides when a dialect becomes its own language?

What does becoming a parent actually do to your brain, identity, and sense of purpose? The research — and one father's story — says more than you'd...