Here, she renders the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, hey, using sumi ink, traditional in Japanese calligraphy and made from the soot of burnt oils. In focusing on a single letter, Wapner echoes ...

David Goldstein, “Hebrew Aleph-Bet” (2020) (image courtesy David Goldstein) The next section moves into calligraphy and lettering, a particular passion of the author, who movingly describes a ...

But Rosenstein had a fascination with his own ABCs, which served as his fundamentals before he even stepped into an art studio. For almost 80 years, Rosenstein has created calligraphy art, ...

In workshops and classes, Rosenstein would frequently tell audiences that all Hebrew calligraphy derives from the tiny letter “Yud” — often used as an abbreviation for the name of God — whose teardrop ...

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 ...

SHAVUOT FEATURE. 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 ...

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, Pennsylvania.