The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis. According to the new study by the Wilfrid Laurier ...

“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 ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise. Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a ...

As part of her capstone project at her Tel Aviv-area college, graphic artist Michal Shomer revamped the Hebrew alphabet — adding a dozen new letters to make the 3,000-year-old language more inclusive ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

If you look closely at medieval drawings of the seven-branched menorah candlestick of the temple of Jerusalem, you may be able to count 22 almond blossoms draped over the branches. These represent the ...