Jewish Telegraphic Agency

An Israeli’s alphabet combines Hebrew and Arabic to promote understanding

TEL AVIV (JTA) — 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 ...
The Forward

Writing Hebrew letters carefully is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too.

(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, ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Class teaches Hebrew in just two hours at Munster synagogue

For English-speaking children and adults, learning to recognize very different letters of the Hebrew alphabet and to pronounce those letters to form words can be challenging. Yet, the effort is worth ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Archaeologist says he found oldest Hebrew writing

An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he believes is the oldest known Hebrew inscription on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard _ a find that suggests Biblical accounts of the ancient Israelite ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Writing Hebrew letters creatively is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too.

“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 ...