The musician from Maplewood – who created and directed the stage shows The Soul of Gershwin and Mishegass! – has gone in a new direction with Alef-Bet: Music of Hebrew Letters, which will have its ...

In the beginning, Hebrew went through growing pains: the language needed many new words. Ben-Yehuda made a dictionary of new Hebrew words (including מילון, or milon, the word for dictionary).

Let’s start at the very beginning. It is, as “>very good place to start. Let’s go to the biblical book of Genesis, or, more specifically, to the Hebrew text of it, known as B’reishit, and ...

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 ...

Yiddish is written with Hebrew letters, but as for the Hebrew language as a whole, these communities use it only for prayer. For everything else, they use Yiddish.

Here, she renders the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, hey, using sumi ink, traditional in Japanese calligraphy and made from the soot of burnt oils. In focusing on a single letter, Wapner echoes ...

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ... 999 And 999 x 5 = 4995, which is the sum of all 22 Hebrew letters (including sofit) by which all things were created: 22 letters: ...

Starting the Torah with the letter “Aleph” is not appropriate because of the numeric value of the letter Aleph. It represents a quantity of 1 – a state of “bidud” isolation.

Israeli graphic artist Michal Shomer created 12 new Hebrew letters that allow the language to be read in ways that better recognize both women and non-binary people.