Hebrew
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AI is also being used to build a huge, searchable collection of previously inaccessible sources on Jewish history and culture by transcribing 10 million pages of Hebrew manuscripts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The word everyone here uses for this phenomenon is tkuma: Hebrew for rebirth or renaissance, with an added nuance, we’re told, of national revival, of a people rising again after having plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Central to both Steinbeck’s novel and Kazan’s update is the author’s interpretation of the Hebrew word timshel, which he translates as “thou mayest.”
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
"Not in our building," says Kayal when asked about the precedence given to Hebrew.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
I went to a secret Hebrew school in a rabbi's darkened apartment.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
I thought of Hebrews 13:2: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Yet the Hebrew Bible shows that Hebrews were as terrified of existential uprootedness as Blaise Pascal or any Christian king.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
The Black Hebrews, as the spiritual community’s members are commonly known, first made their way to Israel from the United States in the 1960s.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Dozens of young Black Hebrews serve in the Israeli military, and many work for Teva Deli, a vegan food manufacturer.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Like the Greeks, the Hebrews used letters from their alphabet to represent numbers, so every word had a numerical value.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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