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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“The big thing is that they’re happy,” an associate said of the artist’s works based on Hebrew text. Mordechai Rosenstein, a painter and calligrapher whose brightly colored illuminations of Hebrew ...

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 ...

Pludwinski worries about Hebrew calligraphy’s continuing importance: “You have to find a new way of saying something relevant to your generation. If you want to print out a 12-point David font, you ...

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, ...

When Congregation Emanu-El welcomes back its Torah scrolls on Sunday, it will also mark the return of a former Victoria woman who has expanded the centuries-old tradition of Hebrew calligraphy. When ...

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.

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