Writing

40,000-year-old markings may be the roots of script

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing

The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave, approximately 40,000 years old, bears multiple sequences of crosses and dots on its surface.
Lauren Adilev

Lauren Adilev: from everywhere to Kiryat Arba

Sam Spiegel Students in Action.

AI meets screenwriting - a first-of-its-kind global course at the Sam Spiegel school

Judith Segaloff

Judith Segaloff: A writer and designer – powerful, prolific, and productive


Return to Caesarea - short story

A highlight of the trip was visiting the once Roman capital of Caesarea. Situated by the Mediterranean Sea, Caesarea is built on sand dunes and ancient ruins.

 A view of the Caesarea seaside.

Students cheat in college exams. This new development will end the phenomenon

New software from the Originality company can help academic institutions identify non-original, plagiarized exams and papers.

Students take a university entrance examination at a lecture hall in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, June 16, 2015. Students in Spain must pass the exam after completing secondary school in order to gain access to university. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

Zibby Owens: The New York woman upending the publishing scene

The book-fluencer's children’s book is a telling look into her psyche and what has driven her so far in life. 

 BOOK-FLUENCER Zibby Owens.

Dorothy Parker: Witty, wise, wistful and wonderful

I wish I could have met her, just once, held her hand and whispered, “I understand.”

 HER LETHAL wit marked her out from the start.

Plagiarists beware: Copyleaks is coming for you with $6m. in hand

The Israeli AI-driven platform can detect writers’ stylistic ‘voices,’ and detect misuse of their work in other texts.

 The Copyleaks team

Purim: A poem for the Jewish holiday

The poem reflects Paul Celan’s sense of an ultimatum and yet also a lightness that sometimes surprises, especially at the end of “The Meridian.”

 Irish hares outside Dublin Airport on December 3, 2021.

A writer's experience with cancel culture

While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.

 THE WRITER at the newspaper he  worked at during and after high  school.

Benjamin Netanyahu is working on his third book

Writing a memoir at the end of one's career is a highly lucrative practice in the political field, and American publishers tend to pay large sums for books written by major world leaders. 

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the Knesset, on July 12, 2021.

Expanding the keyhole of the future

Zion’s Fiction returns with a second anthology

 THE ANTHOLOGY ‘More Zion’s Fiction.’

Israeli children's author Shlomo Abas receives lifetime achievement award

Shlomo Abas, born in 1948, has published 170 books, including 32 children's books and 138 collections of legends, fairy tales, parables, riddles and jokes.

Tal Mosseri, Shlomo Abas, Dan Futterman, director-general of the Israel Center for Education Innovation and Etty Buckspan, pedagogical director of the Israel Center for Education Innovation