Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HEBREW POET Leah Goldberg. (photo credit: ALEPH Festival) Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, ...

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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, ...

Five Yiddish and Hebrew authors were the recipients today of the 1958 Lamed Aleph prizes given annually for the best books that appeared in Yiddish and Hebrew during the year. The $500 prizes went to ...

The textbook for the intensive Hebrew class that I enrolled in this past summer was called “Hebrew from Scratch”. Which didn’t technically apply to my situation, at age 48, in the Beginner Aleph ...

Information reaching me shows that the press in Germany did not carry the recent scientific conclusions, that the alphabet is of Jewish, rather than of Phoenician origin. It is conjectural what their ...