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 ...

Merav Rosenbaum, a high school Hebrew teacher in San Francisco, is a contractor with the State Department and has now worked with three presidents. SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern ...

SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — A San Francisco teacher hired by the State Department to translate into Hebrew President Trump’s “not very eloquent” (as she puts it ...

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 ...

For 1st time, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew author, translator Award goes to Iddo Gefen’s ‘Jerusalem Beach’; organizers says including works translated into English, and ...