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 ...

'The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter': The shape of aleph-bets to come - review The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a ...

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 ...

JTA — 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, ...

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.

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, ...

“A truly beautiful letter,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in his book “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter” (Brandeis University Press, 2023), “will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce.” The book ...

KOCHI: When a calligrapher wields one’s tools on a medium, each stroke brings forth an expressive style of writing. This ornamental penmanship, or ‘the art of beautiful writing’, has a distinguished ...