Back at Passover time, I published a column about a facsimile edition of an early 19th-century French Haggadah from Bordeaux, one of whose interesting features was its use of “ngh” to represent the ...

Parashat Va’etchanan includes one of the best-known sentences in the Torah, “Shema Yisrael, Hashem Eloheinu, Hashem Echad ” (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One; Deuteronomy 6:4).

Evan Loiterman’s “Ayin” displays an eye looking towards the sky superimposed over the clouds. ‘Ayin’ is the name of the Hebrew letter shown, and also the Hebrew word for ‘eye.’ Evan Loiterman and I ...