The Forward

Grok said Hebrew translation was disabled on X — but it’s not

Despite what you may have heard, Hebrew translation still works on X. But allegations that the platform had disabled translation for Hebrew went viral after Grok, the AI chatbot built into the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Robert Alter completes his monumental translation of the Hebrew Bible

The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...
The Christian Century

Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation is at once accurate and eloquent

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The art of biblical translation: Modern translators and their tin-ear to the literature of the Hebrew Bible

Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Language apps are putting Hebrew school in teens’ back pockets. But do they work?

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive ...