(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, ...

Can you learn to read Hebrew even if you do not speak the language? A HelloNation article featuring insights from Diana Yacobi of Sarah & David's Read Hebrew Now in Englewood, New Jersey, explains how ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

During the pandemic, Rabbi Emily Meyer started drawing around Hebrew letters, using brightly colored markers to hug the contours of the aleph-bet. Then she started posting them on Facebook. When the ...

The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...

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 stylized writing system ...

The coin celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon, an 18th-century rabbinical luminary. (JTA) — The Bank of Lithuania minted a euro piece of currency containing Hebrew letters.

“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 ...