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The Cognate Accusative: An Appreciation

English and other European languages have an aversion to pairing verbs with etymologically-related objects.  But the form is common in Hebrew.And on the Seventh Day?

A new book argues that Israel could have made peace after the Six-Day War; but three unfounded assumptions undermine the author’s claim.Nora Knows What to Do

“Those endless women-in-film panels. It’s, like, just do it! Just do it . . . It’s my ongoing argument with a whole part of the women’s movement.”  A profile of Nora Ephron, who died yesterday at age seventy-one. (2009) From Russia with Love

While Moscow still supports Syria and Iran in a bid to counter U.S. influence in the Middle East, economic and cultural ties between Russia and Israel have blossomed since the end of the Cold War.The Wolf Lies Down with Islam

If Obama owes his critical attitude toward Israel to Rabbi Arnold Wolf, his sometime friend in Chicago, why didn’t the president pay any attention to Wolf’s reflections on the Islamic world? Hebrew Comes to Harlem

The New York school board’s approval of a Hebrew charter school in South Harlem heralds a new educational partnership between Harlem’s diverse black community and Upper West Side Jews.