Mark Mostow Computer in Hebrew is: מַחְשֵׁב mahhSHEV. It’s commonly written without vowels as מחשב. Native Hebrew words are formed by fitting a three or four consonant root into a pattern. The meaning of the word is more or less determined by the basic meaning of the root and the usage of the pattern. In…

(Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, Mar 24, 2025”Steal, Adapt, Borrow” about Jonathan Anderson) “In the context of hundreds of paintings rendering sumptuous fabrics, the paired canvases by Titian and Rubens of the Garden of Eden were especially suggestive: each artist had captured the very last moment when clothing was unnecessary. Before Eve bit into the forbidden…

Google Search: “nehemiah mark” artist wood carving Educated as a Hebrew scholar and teacher In European Yeshivas, Mr. Mark has produced more than a thousand sculptures. He attempts to translate abstractions from Jewish lore into visual three dimensional presentations. Mr. Nehemiah Mark, who hasachieved great renown as a crea-tive artist in wood sculpture willbe the Guest Speaker at the forth-coming Annual Meeting of theMen’s Association on Wednesday,May 6th at the Shaar Hasho-mayim Synagogue. The speakerhas created a…

The “Golem” is a legend of an artificial human-like creature crafted out of mud who served a physical protector of the jews. With a carved word on the forehead of “Emet” -truth. When the creature became too much, the “E” was erased leaving “met” or death on the forehead, the created ceased to exist. For…

https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/16612-he-cast-a-look-and-went-mad At JTS  Museum Notes: One of the few paintings in Western art to illustrate a Talmudic narrative, “He Cast a Look and Went Mad” deals with the confrontation between tradition and modernity. The work reflects the influence of the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah, on European Jews in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This…

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