Tahini, "DESTINY" (2023). The agender artist specializes in hand-poked Judaica tattooing as a spiritual practice. (all photos courtesy the artist) “In a world that is largely White and Christian, and ...

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a Jew with a tattoo. Those thoughts resurfaced last week when I read Jodi Rudoren’s New York Times story about the “handful” of Young ...

Tattoos are taboo to many Jews, but the atrocity of Oct. 7 has changed a lot of minds about how pain leaves its mark. “I’m a nice Jewish boy from New Jersey,” said Todd Elkin, a former Wall Streeter ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When senior Melanie Teichner walks across the University of Minnesota campus, she is hardly unusual. Yes, she sports two tattoos, but her discreet images are modest compared with many of ...

Jake Emen knows religious Jewish law bans tattoos, but says his experiences have an intrinsic connection to his faith. SAN DIEGO (JTA) — I’m lying on my side on the first floor of a nondescript ...

When Floris Hirschfeld’s mother died two years ago, he had her portrait tattooed on his back to honour her memory. One day he hopes the image, skin and all, will adorn the wall of an art collector’s ...

"They wanted just to let him know that it was four young Jewish boys that helped save his life," said Boston College police officer Carl Mascioli A group of Jewish teens is being credited with saving ...