If you’ve been wondering about Balashon email updates, here’s the good news: they’re working again. I wrote up the background and why this h...

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For many years, I provided the ability to subscribe to Balashon posts via Google FeedBurner. That feature shut down in 2021. I've since ...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here on Balashon. But I haven’t stopped writing about Hebrew and language. For some time now, I’ve been ...

The latest viral internet trend is creating AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli. You've very likely seen them by now—or m...

Let's look at two Hebrew words for clown - לֵיצָן leitzan  and מוּקְיוֹן mukion .  Leitzan is the more common of the two, so we'll s...

A reader asked about an Israeli grape juice called Inbalim  ענבלים. I presume this is the brand: He asked why the juice had that name.  I do...