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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Calligrapher and Torah scroll scribe Pludwinski (Mastering Hebrew Calligraphy) charts how depictions of the Hebrew alphabet have evolved over the millennia in this elegant survey. The author explains ...

KT Storybook: A Dubai chef's love for Hebrew calligraphy A Muslim chef in Dubai, who is also a Hebrew calligrapher, couldn't stop thinking about all the opportunities that the historic UAE-Israel ...

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.