February 27th was the third anniversary of Leonard Nimoy’s death. For most people, his name will conjure up images of “the Vulcan salute”—what a 1968 New York Times article described as a “double-fingered version of Churchill’s victory sign.” His parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, and Nimoy drew from his Orthodox upbringing when creating the iconic gesture. In his autobiography, I Am Spock, he explains: “This gesture symbolizes the Hebrew letter shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, ‘Lord.’”
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