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 ...

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“A truly beautiful letter,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in his book “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter” (Brandeis University Press, 2023), “will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce.” The book ...

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 ...

'The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter': The shape of aleph-bets to come - review The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a ...

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 ...

“Investigating my discovery of the language, I think I have investigated myself.” — Jhumpa Lahiri, from her memoir, “In Other Words” Over 20 years have passed since my first Hebrew class. I began this ...

Lynne Avadenka, “Invention VI” (ongoing series), letterpress print (all images courtesy the artist, unless noted otherwise) With each passing moment, how close do we come to losing valuable aspects of ...

The de-anchoring of leading currencies from gold in 1971 enabled a massive increase in the creation of both the amount of money and of its counterpart debt (“A 50-year quest for monetary stability”, ...