understanding politics, considerations

Hebrew


November 25th, 2008 · Israel and the Middle East, Judaism, Religion

RISHON LEZION, Israel — No mat­ter how one feels about Israel and Mid­dle East­ern pol­i­tics, any­one one with an inter­est in lan­guage can appre­ci­ate the rebirth of Hebrew after few peo­ple spoke it for nearly 2,000 years. (And prob­a­bly even longer: In ancient Judea, peo­ple spoke Ara­maic.) See here.