Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

Watch “Read Hebrew in 3 Minutes Song – Part 2: A as in Aqua” to see the Hebrew Guru method in action. This educational, engaging video will demonstrate how easy and fun it is to learn Hebrew ...

Ordinarily the Hebrew vowel signs are not headline material, but they made the front page of the newspaper Ha’aretz on June 4. The subject was a proposed spelling reform put forth by Dr ...

After his contract as education director was not renewed, Peleg filed a suit against the rabbi at Bnai Torah congregation for $18.18, a number that symbolizes life in Hebrew.

And as such Jews writing Yiddish turned the ayin (ע) into an alternate marker for the segol vowel. In Arabic the vowel marking that represents U, Damma , looks like a variant of the Arabic letter ...

Lewis Chessmen — Status Symbols (1200 - 1400 AD) ... This astrolabe is inscribed with words in hebrew and Arabic, indicating it was probably made for a Jewish scholar in Spain.