Past Newsletters
2023-04-24 – מְדִינָה: the path to statehood
2023-03-05 – Purim exposé: מַסֵּכָה and תַּחְפֹּשֶׂת unmasked
2022-12-21 – The Festival of Lights: חַג הָאוּרִים
2022-08-18 – Vacation:חֹפֶשׁ or חֻפְשָׁה?
2022-05-29 – H̱ag HaShavu′ot, the Feast of Weeks
2022-04-10 – From slavery to freedom
2022-01-06 – Two words for ‘tree’ – עֵץ וְאִילָן
2021-09-05 – The root סכ”ך: Sukkot and shielding
2021-06-25 – Bathing in New York in the 1930s – in Hebrew!
2021-03-24 – Where does the word afikoman come from?
2020-12-10 – Sufganiyya, a traditional Hanukka food
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