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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Hebrew alphabet

Bible Lands Museum director Risa Levitt shows 'Kuma,' the illustrated scroll made by Eitan Rosenzweig, a soldier killed on November 22, 2023, in battle in Gaza, currently on exhibit in the Jerusalem museum through Summer 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
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
By Jessica Steinberg
Mordechai Rosenstein, shown in his studio, created more than 700 works using stylized Hebrew calligraphy and vibrant colors. (Courtesy: Lisa Rosenstein via JTA)
July 12, 2024, 11:21 am
Mordechai Rosenstein, illuminating Jewish calligrapher, dies at 90 in Pennsylvania
Unique brightly colored works that featured stretched out and manipulated Hebrew letters are displayed in countless homes and synagogues around the world
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Visitors are pictured in the Israel pavilion during a media tour ahead of the opening of the Dubai Expo 2020 in the Gulf Emirate on September 27, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
October 31, 2021, 5:33 pm
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
By Shira Hanau
Expert paleographer Ada Yardeni lecturing at Jerusalem's Yad Ben Zvi Institute, August 2016. (Matthew Morgenstern)
July 5, 2018, 2:38 pm
Dead Sea Scrolls decoder remembered as grande dame of Semitic paleography
Ada Yardeni, who died this month at 81, combined practical knowledge of calligraphy with scholarly insights on the development of Hebrew to become a world-renowned forgery expert
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
3,400-year-old limestone ostracon of the Egyptian 18th dynasty from the excavation of Theban Tomb 99. (Nigel Strudwick)
May 22, 2018, 5:35 am
First written record of Semitic alphabet, from 15th century BCE, found in Egypt
Inscribed 3,400-year-old limestone flake from Luxor is world’s first — and second — transliteration of early Canaanite alphabet, says Egyptologist Thomas Schneider
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Hebrew teacher Sapri Sale (center, with white shirt) with his students in Jakarta, February 2018 (Conny Dwirani)
March 13, 2018, 1:15 am
Muslim man opens first-ever Hebrew course in Indonesia
While some criticize effort to promote language, Sapri Sale’s previously published Hebrew-Indonesian dictionary received endorsement from senior imam
By Raphael Ahren
Gabriel Birnbaum, senior researcher at Historical Dictionary Project at Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem, shows an old Hebrew text on his personal computer at his office in Jerusalem, August 23, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
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
By Mike Smith
Can you read these words? Aravrit from Liron Lavi Turkenich's Facebook page
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
By Andrew Tobin
Illustrative. A Hebrew-English keyboard. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
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
By Stuart Winer
Working on a giant banner of loving kindness, at the back-to-school celebration in Jerusalem's YMCA on Monday, August 29 (Courtesy Dasee Berkowitz)
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
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative photo of a decorated earlobe. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 7, 2015, 12:51 pm
Hanukkah greeting ad flummoxes NYT readers
Clothing chain’s Hebrew holiday wishes for customers in Sunday’s Times accidentally refers to dead earlobes instead
By Stuart Winer
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