Foldout Calendar

The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This ornate one from Isfahan, Iran…

Like Torah scrolls, the scroll of the biblical book of Esther, read ritually in the synagogue on the holiday of Purim, must be completely unadorned. However, in the sixteenth century, for reasons…

Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…