Hillel Smith, “Who Brings Forth Bread from the Land” (2016) (image courtesy Brandeis University Press) “A beautiful Hebrew letter, as I understand it, needs to have not only surface beauty but also an ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

While studying at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, Mordechai Rosenstein learned figure drawing and color theory, which he calls the “ABCs” of fine art, the fundamental skills needed to be an ...

The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...

The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires will present "Hebrew Calligraphy and Letter Arts Today: Tattoos, Type and Graffiti" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, via Zoom. The program will be presented by ...

Josh Berer makes most of his money designing Arabic tattoos. He also has a side business designing cross-cultural marriage contracts. By Alix Wall When a couple from Washington, D.C., a Baha’i man and ...

Congregants at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana and local students had a rare opportunity recently to see the temple’s holiest Torah scrolls unrolled across tables and to learn a little about history, ...

Over 2,000 Indians and Israelis celebrated Holi and the Jewish festival of Purim in the "flea market" of Tel Aviv enjoying Indian dance, classical music, dresses, henna, calligraphy in Hindi and ...

Over 2,000 Indians and Israelis celebrated Holi and the Jewish festival of Purim in the happening "flea market" of Tel Aviv enjoying Indian dance, classical music, dresses, henna, calligraphy in Hindi ...