Translation

Parashat Devarim: Always relevant

The Torah remains unchanged, yet its message can be expressed anew in the language, challenges, and circumstances of every generation.

SEVENTY LANGUAGES?
Google (illustration).

Changing the rules of the game again: Gemini and Google Translate join forces

WhatsApp

WhatsApp will translate messages for you inside the chat

Jewish Serbian writer David Albahari.

Life and legacy of Jewish-Serbian author David Albahari - opinion


Poet and Israel Prize laureate Meir Wieseltier dies at 82

The poet and winner of the Israel Prize Meir Wieseltier passed away at the age of 82. Wieseltier is considered one of the most prominent and important poets and translators in the country's history.

 Meir Wieseltier, award winning poet, dies at 82

Book lovers rejoice: New app offers 600,000 books to read, listen to

The platform allows book lovers to consume them on the way to work, on vacation, during sports or at home, and enjoy a wide range of unlimited books for the price of one book.

Oodles of reading material at an old bookstore in Safed

What is a notarized translation and what is it good for?

Especially Olim often need to have documents intended for official use translated and certified by a notary.

 Person writing (illustrative)

Researchers decode 500-year-old decrypted letter sent by Spanish King Charles V

The decryption process was particularly complex due to the use of a symbol system that was designed to be difficult to crack.

 Letter written with quill.

Atonement: A translated Hebrew term with a broad spiritual meaning - opinion

The English word “reincarnation” robs the concept of its specificity of different places, times and cultures. The same can be said about “atonement.”

 A CHILD RIDES his scooter in an empty avenue in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur, last month.

'Dirshuni': Opening the Midrash catalog for women - review

Jerusalem-based author and teacher Tamar Biala birthed a contemporary oeuvre of midrashim that could legitimately stand alongside those of the ancient rabbis in their canon of Midrash.

 ERNO RUBIK, creator of the puzzle, solves a Rubik’s cube. The author describes Midrash as having the complexity of a Rubik’s cube.

The real ‘Bambi’: A somber tale of danger and Jewish assimilation

The story of the famous adorable fawn Bambi wasn’t originally for kids. Its author was a European Jew who wanted to assimilate.

 THREE BAMBI Award gold-plated statuettes of a roe deer fawn at the award ceremony in Germany.

The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish

Now the Jewish world knows how to say “SpongeBob SquarePants” in Yiddish, thanks to a translation of the animated kid show’s theme song by Eddy Portnoy.

The Spongebob SquarePants with Gary the Snail balloon hovers above the crowd during the 93rd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, U.S., November 28, 2019.

This Australian couple is bringing Jewish mysticism secrets to English

“While the Zohar has been translated several times into English, the tikunim have never really been translated into any Western language.”

 David and Marjorie Solomon.

Meet the professor working to bring Jewish texts to the Spanish world

Thanks to Prof. Shmuel Kornblit, the Spanish-speaking world has access to an incredible range of texts and Jewish educational resources in their mother tongue.

 Prof. Shmuel Kornblit