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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

Here's what you need to know about playing this festive Hanukkah activity. A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each ...

Isaac Asimov’s iconic science fiction collection “I, Robot” tells the story of androids created at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. The androids range from “Robbie,” who is nonvocal, to “Stephen ...

The coin celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon, an 18th-century rabbinical luminary. (JTA) — The Bank of Lithuania minted a euro piece of currency containing Hebrew letters.

“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 ...