'If it's a success, then you've won': Yaakov Kirschen on a career of cartooning

(JNS) - I've been thinking a lot about Yaakov Kirschen now that the year 5785 has ended and a new one has begun. I had long known of him but had just started getting to know him, meeting the man behind the "Dry Bones" political cartoon - recognized far and wide in the Jewish news world - on the last Saturday in March.

I happened to be in the same place he was that Shabbat, spending time with family in a suburb of Tel Aviv before flying back to the States that night. He was convalescing from a recent stroke (not his first) in a rehab facility about a dozen blocks away.

Days earlier, I had asked...