Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback. Here's why.

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...
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Google Handwriting Input app update brings five new languages including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and Burmese

Google has updated its Handwriting Input app to include five new languages. Now, customers who speak Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew and Burmese will be able to scribble words on to the input pad, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

An Israeli’s alphabet combines Hebrew and Arabic to promote understanding

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise. Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a ...
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Cursive writing is still important, and we’re tired of people saying it’s not

No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...
Slate

Is Cursive Dead?

Cursive writing is in decline, says the New York Times. Should we panic? In a much-emailed article published Wednesday, Katie Zezima chronicled the hand-wringing of school administrators over whether ...
The Forward

Could Merging Hebrew And Arabic Alphabets Help Bring Peace To Middle East?

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise. Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a ...