alef

"ayin," instead of "alef" - is actually a great play on words for phyllo dough (that you'd use for puff pastries, usually meat or vegetable-filled).

The Blog Herald 2009

Details of the ruling were not made public, but the conservative news website alef.ir reported that Baqaei has been convicted of "numerous violations."

Iran claims 30 arrests in alleged U.S. spy ring 2011

Another midrash argues that the expression “the mother [em, written with an alef] of all living” is to be written differently, with the letter ayin (im — “with”), and that it alludes to the rights of the married woman.

Eve: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

Of her gently humorous “Lider fun Khelem” (Chelm poems) and “Lider fun alef-beys” (Poems of the alphabet), some appeared in the periodicals Inzl, Os and Haynt.

Miryam Ulinover. 2009

Berlin: 1922; Der nayer alef-beys (The New Alphabet).

Helene Khatskels. 2009

James - you have raised a subject that has occupied the human since alef declined to the the first letter of the Bible.

Tell God No James F. McGrath 2008

For a brief introduction and a glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic words, see the first installment. yod alef

Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 2) 2008

I'm no friend of Herod, but give credit where credit is due, he stood up to that Nabataean bitch ... kaf alef

Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 3) 2008

Also, there are some old jewish needlework books out there that might have a lace alef-bet.

A question for my Jewish friends. Angry Professor 2007

It was Mullah Faizullah who had held her hand, guided the pencil in it along the rise of each alef, the curve of each beh, the three dots of each seh.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007