Aleph is the subject of a midrash which praises its humility in not demanding to start the Old Testament. In Hebrew the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, Bet. In this folktale, ...

Ever since I was a child, I have been terrified of rooms full of children — a strange trait for a Hebrew-school teacher. Yes, I adore kids one-on-one, but large groups of them scare me. I thought this ...

The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, alef, is silent. Until it is combined with a second letter, any sound is possible. For Fargo artist Janeen Kobrinsky, the letter, which looks like an askew "N, ...

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the father of modern Hebrew. He was also the father of Ittamar Ben-Avi, who had his own ideas. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the late inventor of modern Hebrew, was feted recently in his ...

I knew a little about Atbash, spelled yaz` in Hebrew. It’s a simple substitution code of the kind, easily decipherable by trained cryptographers, in which certain letters of the alphabet regularly ...