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News ‘The most important tattoo I ever did’: Artists volunteer to ink Oct. 7 survivors
A project called "HEALING INK" brings together tattooists from Israel and abroad
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Art After the massacre, a profound abyss that one Tel Aviv tattoo artist is trying to fill with art
Inbal Hoffman used holes as a motif in her art; now they have taken on new meaning
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Opinion How do you teach an incarcerated student with a swastika tattoo?
As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, one particular student posed my greatest challenge
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The Schmooze Drake’s New Tattoo Depicts Him Dissing The Beatles
“In the next life, I’m tryna stay paid,” the rapper Drake announces on a recent single. “When I die, put my money in the grave.” That request may be fulfilled sooner rather than later, now that the rapper has mortally offended every living Beatles fan. The 32-year-old rapper is partial to tattoos and self-aggrandizement, and…
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Fast Forward Skinhead’s Death Sentence Overturned After Court Says His Nazi Tattoos Were Irrelevant
The California Supreme Court unanimously overturned a white supremacist’s death sentence after they found that prosecutors tainted the jury’s deliberations by focusing on his Nazi tattoos, The Washington Post reported. Jeffrey Scott Young, who at the time was affiliated with neo-Nazi groups like the Aryan Brotherhood, was on trial for murder in 2006. He was…
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Life Why I Got A Tattoo — Despite My Orthodox Community’s Rules
For long as I can remember, I have been captivated by tattoos. I love the variety, the creativity, and the idea that your body can be a canvas for art. As a serious lover of heavy metal, this tatted-up aesthetic makes me swoon. I have lusted after tattoos for my entire life — even in…
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Opinion The Complicated Relationship Between Jews And Tattoos
This article originally appeared in The Forward on July 4, 1997. The first tattoo, speculates Peter Trachtenberg, was the mark of God placed on Cain “lest anyone finding him kill him.” In other words, muses the author of “7 Tattoos,” “From the very beginning tattoos were associated with wrongdoing.” but that was not their only…
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