Igeret: Jewish Greeting Cards

The greeting cards going round on WhatsApp are images somebody else made, and most of us have sent and received the same one. Igeret is built against that. Here you make the card rather than pick one: the illustration is the app's, and everything else on it is yours. Each of the sixty-nine designs here was drawn for this card — sixty-eight original illustrations, not a library of ready-made images. The app is built outward from the Hebrew calendar, so it opens on today's occasion rather than on a list. And it remembers what you have already sent. Shabbat comes round fifty-two times a year; the card opens on one that has not. Pick an occasion, pick a design, write a line of your own, and send a finished card. ELEVEN OCCASIONS Shabbat Shalom · Shana Tova · Gmar Chatima Tova · Sukkot · Chanukah · Purim · Passover · Shavuot — plus Mazal Tov, Refuah Shlema and condolences, which stay open…