A set of ancient clay cylinders discovered in Syria may hold the earliest known example of alphabetic writing, predating Egypt’s script by centuries.

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

In his new book, Stav Appel points out Jewish symbols, objects and references in one of the earliest tarot decks.

A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters inscribed on a dreidel are a Nun, Gimel, Hay or Chai, and Shin. The letters form an ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I learned the Hebrew alphabet when I was three years old in kindergarten. By Grade 1, at my Jewish day school, I was taking classes in ...

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Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center Last winter, as Israelis reeled from the trauma of the October ...

A dreidel is a spinning top with four sides, each inscribed with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew letters inscribed on a dreidel are a Nun, Gimel, Hey or Chai, and Shin. The letters form an ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...