“There’s actually a cognitive benefit to drawing shapes and images to represent words,” Rabbi Emily Meyer said of her video project. (JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

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In Hebrew the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, Bet. In this folktale, Aleph is rewarded by being allowed to start the Ten Commandments. In Hebrew, the first word is אָנֹכִי, which ...

“The letters of the Jews as strict as flames,” writes Karl Shapiro in the poem titled “The Alphabet,” “Or little terrible flowers lean/Stubbornly upwards through the perfect ages/Singing through solid ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official governing body of the modern Hebrew language, announced on Monday that from now on the Hebrew alphabet will consist of 23 letters. The name of the new ...

Typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a stylized writing system that merges the two ancient alphabets into a single giant one. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach ...

When Yehudit Goldfarb moves her body to resemble the letters aleph, gimel or nun, it’s part-dance, part-devotion. A mix of tai chi-style movements, meditative moments and kabbalistic traditions, ...

The language of the world's first alphabet could have been Hebrew. This is according to an archaeologist who has spent the past four years piecing together the letters of the alphabet from ...