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 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 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 ...

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 ...