Below are four examples of Hebrew writing from Pludwinski's book, along with background information and his commentary. The Mesha Stele (a.k.a. The Moabite Stone) This stele, dated around 840 BCE, is ...

The background to the Academy's decision: "A finding in one of the Qumran (Dead Sea) Scrolls, ... There is no new letter in Hebrew, and if you want to write 'Ch' write צ'!

In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness — that true meaning arises in the balance between form and void, action ...

In the early 1990s, a new teriyaki sauce reached New York supermarkets with a distinctive label. In faux-Hebrew font, the name “Soy Vay — Veri Veri Teriyaki” was spelled out.

“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 ...

To write a Torah, a scribe must pen 304,805 Hebrew letters using a feather quill on sheepskin parchment — without making a single mistake. Forget auto-correct.

A new letter has joined the Hebrew alphabet, the Academy of the Hebrew Language (AHL) announced on Monday in a post on X (formerly Twitter), in what is assumed to be an April Fool's joke.. The new ...

A sculpture of the golem made up of carvings of Jewish letters, by artist Joshua Abarbanel and displayed in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Sean Gallup/Getty Images ‘Coding’ everywhere you look. Like the ...

Most letters are ink or pixels, static in their existence. The letters Ori Elisar creates, however, are not. Elisar, a designer from Jerusalem, has created a font that is alive in the most literal ...

In the basement studios of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, wood type fills drawers and cabinets, its nicks and scratches hinting at decades of printing history. But upstairs sits a box of type ...