A recent article on the website, Seforim Blog, compares the phonetics of biblical Hebrew and Arabic. In the post, the author, Rabbi Avi Grossman, remarks that he “cannot fathom” why the letter ayin (ע ...

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 ...

Chana Bracha Siegelbaum, who heads the B'erot Bat Ayin girls' seminary, spoke with Israel National Radio's Eli Stutz and Yishai Fleisher about the spiritual power of baking Hebrew bread from wheat ...

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MEDIA – Beit Ayin presents two days (June 6 and 7) of introduction to Jewish music and spirituality for those of all faiths. With that in mind the event is not at one of our Main Line synagogues but ...