COMMENTARY ON THE TORAH; by Richard Elliott Friedman; HarperSanFrancisco; $50, 704 pages A Torah Illuminated With Chutzpah and Poetic Language - Los Angeles Times ...

For the Jewish artist the desire to illuminate a Torah is an irresistible act of devotion, an offering to Hashem as precious as any sacrifice imaginable. Each parsha is etched into the Jewish conscio ...

LOS ANGELES — The Getty Museum has long been a destination for fans of illuminated manuscripts, with a trove including Christian prayer books from the Middle Ages. Now it also owns a rare Jewish ...

There has long been interest in illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, as documented in the beautiful 1969 book Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts by noted scholar Bezalel Narkiss.

National Jewish Book Award recipient Aviad Moreno’s work focuses on northern Morocco’s Hispanic Jews, whose yearning for a 'homeland' was often for Spain, not elusive Israel ...

The latest exhibit at Art Center Waco features illustrated manuscript pages in "Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living," which explores the interplay of art and text in this Biblical commentary.

A 14th-century illuminated Hebrew Bible featuring Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic styles, is being sold in September at Sotheby’s by Jacqui Safra, heir of a Syrian Lebanese-Swiss banking ...

Want to know how every word of the Torah has 70 meanings? ... How Jews are people of the book. By Sidra Kranz Moshinsky. April 26, 2025 — 7.56pm. Save.