"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 ...

They are written in Paleo-Hebrew, the precursor to the modern Hebrew script we use today, which dates from around the 10th century BCE. The latter takes influence from Aramaic and gained traction ...

Researchers have long pondered the origin of delicate criss-cross facetted patterns that are commonly found on the surfaces of broken material. Typical crack speeds in glass easily surpass a kilometer ...

'The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter': The shape of aleph-bets to come - review The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a ...

You are in: Manchester > Entertainment > Arts, Film and Culture > Arts and Literature > Hebrew beauty Yofi is an exhibition at the Craft and Design Centre which showcases ceramics and jewellery by ...

What do a journalist from the Urals, a mathematician from Tel Aviv, a philosophy researcher from Belarus, and a chemist from Hamburg have in common? All were among 50 Russian-speaking young ...

A ‘Queen Esther’ will be chosen for the Purim Ball – a typical example of Hebrew beauty from Tel Aviv. Esther will be the queen of the Purim ball and the queen of the procession that will take place ...