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March 18, 2025, 4:53 pm
Historical imagery, magical letters capture the imagination in Bible Lands exhibits
Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum extends its archeological focus with two new exhibits, one connected to October 7 and the other to the Hebrew alphabet
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July 12, 2024, 11:21 am
Mordechai Rosenstein, illuminating Jewish calligrapher, dies at 90 in Pennsylvania
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Featured at Dubai Expo, a mixed Hebrew-Arabic script takes on new purpose
Revolutionary half-half lettering system ‘Aravrit’ was created to enable Jews and Palestinians to relate to each others’ language. Now it’s helping Israel and Arab nations connect
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Dead Sea Scrolls decoder remembered as grande dame of Semitic paleography
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First written record of Semitic alphabet, from 15th century BCE, found in Egypt
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September 14, 2017, 4:42 pm
Epic quest is documenting the ‘miracle’ of the Hebrew language
Researchers are painstakingly building lexicon of every word in ancient tongue through to its modern incarnation
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June 1, 2017, 5:52 am
Can you read ‘Aravrit,’ the typography of peace?
With Hebrew below and Arabic above, Liron Lavi Turkenich designs revolutionary lettering all Israelis and Arabs can understand
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December 13, 2016, 7:40 pm
Israel tries to take the sting out of typing in Hebrew
Standards Institution grapples with confusing locations of punctuation keys
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August 31, 2016, 2:49 pm
Back-to-school party celebrates the ABCs of coexistence
Just before the academic year starts, Arab and Jewish kids have a joint jamboree at Jerusalem’s YMCA
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