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The fact that the U.S. Constitution does not mention God was controversial at the time, and caused many Americans to oppose ratification. The reasoning behind this was that there were many Christian denominations in the United States, and a lot of Jews too, so favoring one would be unfair to the others, and not practical. The intention was not to make the U.S. government anti religion, but to maintain a benevolent neutrality toward Christianity and Judaism. There was even an effort during the Constitutional Convention to make Hebrew the official language of the United States. The motion failed, not out of hostility toward Jews, but because there were not many people in the United States who knew Hebrew, and not many who could have taught Hebrew to everyone else.
The Hebrew that is spoken in Israel is the same Hebrew of the Jewish Bible (AKA, the Old Testament) but a whole lot of words have been added for things and concepts that did not exist when the Hebrew Bible was originally written.
The Hebrew that is spoken in Israel is the same Hebrew of the Jewish Bible (AKA, the Old Testament) but a whole lot of words have been added for things and concepts that did not exist when the Hebrew Bible was originally written.