And why they were decorated with zodiacs.

Good Shabbos Everybody and the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Three-hundred years of omer art.

Dura-Europos.

Yehuda Pen’s portraits of Jewish dignity.

A favorite motif in Jewish art.

Ahuva Elisha.

Catholics fare little better.

Combining 14th-century techniques with 21st-century sensibilities.

A glimpse at a Greek island’s 800 years of Jewish history.

“The etrog was used as a weapon with which to pelt one’s enemies and as an amulet to soften the pains of childbirth.”

“The Angel of Zion, framed by a Magen David, extends its wings and points Jewish exiles toward Eretz Yisrael.”