Adventures in Aramaic

Aramaic is not just a historical curiosity, and certainly not a dead language.
Aramaic is not just a historical curiosity, and certainly not a dead language.
Today, we are living with an escalating climate emergency that is recognized by more than 1,000 jurisdictions around the world, including Hamilton.
There is Aristotle, as well as Plato and Confucius. And then there is my six-year-old granddaughter Lyla. She may not be an expert on all philosophical matters, but then again…
We associate Yiddish with weepy, overfed milkmen who can’t control their families; not shtetl avengers machine-gunning Nazis.