Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters ...

(JTA) There’s a good chance that when you logged on to Facebook today, you were met with tweets showing off grids of yellow, green and black squares. There’s also a good chance that you posted a ...

When his family moved to Israel in 1998, Robert August-Dalfen probably never envisioned the day he would wear a banana costume. But that’s exactly what Robert recently donned along with his wife, ...

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 ...

The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...

Hillel Smith, “Who Brings Forth Bread from the Land” (2016) (image courtesy Brandeis University Press) “A beautiful Hebrew letter, as I understand it, needs to have not only surface beauty but also an ...