(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, ...
“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 ...
"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 ...
The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires will present "Hebrew Calligraphy and Letter Arts Today: Tattoos, Type and Graffiti" on Thursday, Feb. 26, via Zoom.
The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...
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 ...