Despite the approval of a design that included the Hebrew letter "aleph", the original sketch, like the one pictured here, incorrectly featured the Greek letter "Nu." This is a variation of the ...

Izzy Pludwinski's Brush Aleph-bet, 2007, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," Brandeis University Press. Modern Hebrew language is an indispensable key to the fullness of Jewish civilization and creates ...

They analysed a single Hebrew letter, aleph, which appears more than 5,000 times in the scroll. In a paper published by scholars Mladen Popovic, Maruf Dhali and Lambert Schomaker, they said they ...

“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 ...

If you’ve learned Greek or Russian, you’ll realize that it’s a pretty easy transition from English, and that they operate with essentially the same set of rules and use many similar letters. If you’ve ...

[9] The directness of our inheritance from these two sources is suggested by the fact that our word 'alphabet' is the latinized form of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, 'alpha', derived ...

Across the millennium, it’s been hard to be a Jew. Our history is replete with countless stories of oppressors savagely ...

(JTA) — The Bank of Lithuania minted a euro piece of currency containing Hebrew letters. The 10-euro coin was minted on Tuesday and is a limited-edition commemorative collector’s item ...

“The idea of something has been there for a long time, since I was a teenager,” begins Umair Dar, the 33-year-old founder, producer and chief visualiser at A for Aleph, a studio-meets ...