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Photos of the World's Most Isolated Jewish Communities

Photos from the World’s Most Isolated Jewish Communities

The wandering Jew is more than a stereotype and a striped houseplant. In their beautiful new book, Scattered Among the Nations: Photographs and Stories of the World’s Most Isolated Jewish Communities, Bryan Schwartz, Jay Sand, and Sandy Carter explore what it feels like to practice Judaism in far-flung corners of the globe. The photographs […]

By Abby Sher

This Barbie Wears Tefillin and is a Torah Scribe

Meet the Feminist Torah Scribe Behind Tefillin Barbie

As one would expect, the rules for who can and cannot become a sofer (a Torah scribe) are pretty intense. As stated in the Talmud, “Sifrei Torah…written by a heretic, a star-worshipper, a slave, a woman, a minor…or an apostate Jew, are unfit for ritual use.” As it stands now, these guidelines are followed by […]

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Died at 34

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Escaped the Nazis then Died at 34

Minimalist art is characterized by a kind of machine-made reductiveness, a movement transgressive in its simplicity. So what would post-minimalism look like? Just check out the breathtaking work of the late Eva Hesse. Born to observant Jews in Hamburg, on this day, January 11, in 1936, Hesse escaped Nazi Europe via kindertransport, eventually settling with […]