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 ...

Ironically for a country full of Jewish people, whose religion states to not make any modifications to one’s body, tattoos have never been so popular among Israelis. While many individuals and ...

The artist characterizes Jewish tattoos as something akin to a modern mezuzah — a small decorative doorpost that traditionally contains a fragment of scripture and designates a Jewish home or ...

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(photo credit: Amit Vigoda) Growing up in Manchester in the 1980s, tattoos were a definite no-no, as far as I was concerned. They weren’t for decent folk and certainly not for nice Jewish girls.

Now Lew the Jew is back in the spotlight, thanks to a new exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco: “Lew the Jew and His Circle: Origins of American Tattoo.” ...

He’s treated racist patients, and each time the Jewish physician has dipped into ... The patient’s skin was covered in Nazi tattoos, including a large swastika on his chest.

The founder of Ephemeral Tattoo, Joshua Sakhai, told me a heartwarming story about his intention to make truly temporary body art so that he could be buried in a Jewish cemetery (tattoos are ...

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