Most personal and geographic names (in Israel) from the Bible are given in the accepted Hebrew form. The conceptual foundation of the SJE is characterized by a thematic bipolarity: Eretz Israel, and in particular the State of Israel on the one hand, and Russian (i.e., Soviet) Jewry on the other, which nevertheless does not exclude the broad scope of different aspects of the lives and history of Jews in all the other countries of the diaspora.
In Israel, most personal and geographic names from the Bible are written in the standard Hebrew script. The theoretical framework of the SJE is marked by a dualistic approach: on one hand, Eretz Israel and specifically the State of Israel; on the other hand, Russian Jewry (i.e., Soviet Jewry), while still encompassing the diverse aspects of Jewish life and history across the diaspora.