July 18, 2008

Chapter 3 - Hebrew Today

• See the word for "house" (and the transliteration of the last name) on the title of this sign: "b(a)y(i)t brnstyyn," or "house of Bernstein"



• This museum in Tel Aviv is called the Eretz Israel Museum, or "Land of Israel Museum"



• A major daily newspaper in Israel is called Haaretz (short for "Haaretz Israel," or "The Land of Israel")

Haaretz

Haaretz website

• See the Hebrew Wikipedia entry for sus (the heading is "domestic horse": "bayit sus," literally "horse of the house")

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