From ‘The 613,’ by Archie Rand (all images by Archie Rand, courtesy Blue Rider Press) In the year 2000, Brooklyn-born painter Archie Rand embarked on the most ambitious project of his career: He would ...

(RNS) Painterly engagement with the central texts of Judaism almost doesn’t exist. Except for Archie Rand. (RNS) A new book by a trailblazing artist raises an old question: Is there such a thing as ...

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Homosexuality at an Orlando club or the blasphemy of a Paris cartoon did not violate any injunctions of the Quran. Few people realize that almost all the murder and mayhem perpetrated by Muslim and ...