Aleph is the subject of a midrash which praises its humility in not demanding to start the Old Testament. In Hebrew the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, Bet. In this folktale, ...

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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 ...

As part of her capstone project at her Tel Aviv-area college, graphic artist Michal Shomer revamped the Hebrew alphabet — adding a dozen new letters to make the 3,000-year-old language more inclusive ...

ALEPH Festival, a new international festival devoted to the Hebrew language and the culture created through it, will launch on February 18 to mark International Mother Language Day. Taking place ...

When Rabbi Ari Lamm posted a first 25-post thread on Twitter with a lesson in why one should read the Bible in Hebrew, he was doing it out of personal inspiration and not for anyone else. But a few ...