Writing Hebrew letters creatively is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too.
“There’s actually a cognitive benefit to drawing shapes and images to represent words,” Rabbi Emily Meyer said of her video project. (JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last ...
Celebrating birthdays at our Ladies Who Lunch celebration in November 2023. Seated left to right: Ellen Weber, Arlene Lomazoff-Marron. Standing: Carolyn Grandis. Photo courtesy of the author. The ...
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 ...
The growing trend of Hebrew-immersion day camps offer children a chance to learn Hebrew while engaging in summer fun. NEW YORK (JTA) — It used to be that parents who wanted to expose their children to ...
"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 ...
(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, ...
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