Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, where millions are flocking to pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s ...
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Renowned Israeli artist to visit KC as artist-in-residence
Award-winning Israeli illustrator, educator and children’s book author Hanoch Piven will be in Kansas City from Feb. 28 to March 3 for an artist-in-residence weekend. Throughout the weekend, Piven ...
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Chess And Orthodoxy And the Famed Samuel Reshevsky
Perhaps most remarkable, however, was Reshevsky’s unwavering commitment to his faith as a devout and fully-observant Orthodox Jew. He dedicated a portion of each day to the study of Torah and steadf ...