Aviya Kushner is the Forward’s language columnist and the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb and The Grammar of God. Follow her on Twitter @AviyaKushner.
Aviya Kushner
By Aviya Kushner
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On Tel Aviv's light rail, a woman older than the State of Israel has to depend on the kindness of strangers
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These days, a sense of relentless fear underscores even the most seemingly mundane interactions in Israel
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Mark Harman's new translation of Kafka's stories may just be the best book published this year
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After the first presidential debate, it's clear that Americans must take the threat of a public culture defined by lies seriously
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Three new books written in English — by Yael Van Der Wouden, Jessica Jacobs and Toby Lloyd — feature Hebrew in them
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In an impassioned speech, the president sounded an important alarm about 'one of the world's oldest forms of prejudice and hate'
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Culture Finally, a new hub for people who want to study the language and history of Ladino
The American Ladino League celebrates a language that was the mother tongue of generations of Sephardic Jews
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