The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires will present "Hebrew Calligraphy and Letter Arts Today: Tattoos, Type and Graffiti" on Thursday, Feb. 26, via Zoom.

"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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Artist Mordechai Rosenstein is no Kabbalist, but his artwork - intricate calligraphy that dissolves into vibrant art - invites profound meditation on the deeper meanings of words ...

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, ...

Mordechai Rosenstein, a painter and calligrapher whose brightly colored illuminations of Hebrew texts adorn countless Jewish homes, offices and synagogues, died on July 9 in Elkins Park. He was 90.

MOSS SEES the core values of the Hillel Foundation at UCLA as inclusivity and pluralism. For the large multipurpose room divided for prayer into sections for three denominations, he designed three ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — I hear America singing, except it’s in Hebrew. Approaching Shavuot, the time of matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, I have heard the song of the new Torah reader in a storefront ...

Maaida Noor's art is influenced by the world of geometry and traditional Islamic illumination An exhibition of Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy reveals "the interlaced nature" of the three faith ...

When Tsilli Pines was planning to wed in 2005 and couldn’t find a ketubah (the official Jewish marriage document), that reflected her own taste, she rolled up her sleeves and made one herself. The ...

His survivors include his wife Mati; a son, Judah Rosenstein; his daughter Lisa (Beth Styles) and two grandchildren, Ava Pearlman and Caleb Rosenstein. Mordechai Rosenstein, a painter and calligrapher ...