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

The first platform using DBSCAN-based point reconstruction to capture authentic handwriting and replay it as smooth, color-coded animated video. Handwriting is procedural — it’s not just what you ...

According to a Pew Research Center survey, only 52% of American Jews can read Hebrew. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute is ...

A researcher has finally cracked the code of two ancient Dead Sea Scroll fragments that baffled scholars for more than 70 ...

The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Still, the historical record tells a far more complex and global ...

Every mysterious symbol reliably matched Hebrew characters, according to researcher Emmanuel Oliveiro of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

One of the last undeciphered Dead Sea Scrolls has been decoded, revealing biblical phrases and themes about the end of days.

Birthday of Henrietta Szold, known as the “Mother of the Yishuv,” founder of the Hadassah women’s organization and Youth Aliyah, which saved thousands of Jewish children in Europe and brought them to ...

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 ...

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The 2,000-year-old artifact was found at ...