“HAVA NAGILA: Have a HAPPY New Year”

Thu, September 9, 2010 (with gratitude for giving me the idea and Nathanson's side of the story to Fran Manushkin for her book, Come, Let...more

September 9, 2010

Tapestry #4 Tevet: Chanukat Ha-Bayit – Dedication to the Home/Temple

Look through my window with me. This is my tapestry, and the one that truly reflects my personal Jewish perspective. It is the way I...more

December 16, 2006

Tapestry #12 Elul: Shalom Bayit/Shalom Peace in the home-Peace in the World

When we wrap ourselves in a tallit we take on the commandments and wrap ourselves in the Torah.  If we imagined wrapping ourselves in tapestries...more

September 16, 2006

Tapestry #11 – Av: The Value of Shabbat in our Lives

When I went to do Joseph Robert Foosaner’s bris last Friday morning, I arrived to hear his brother, Sam, tell me that he was drinking...more

August 25, 2006

I Left My Heart in Eretz Yisrael

Fri, July 28, 2006 Israel Solidarity Shabbat – As Israel Defends Herself Against Hezbollah Attacks from Lebanon Shabbat Devarim On July 12th, I arrived at...more

July 28, 2006

Tapestry #10: Tammuz: Ahavat America

I first set eyes on this tapestry last July, in Bracha and Menachem Lavee’s Jerusalem home. It was the first tapestry that Bracha finished, and...more

June 30, 2006

Tapestry #9 Sivan: V’SHENANTAM L’VANECHA: Creating Life Long Jewish Learners

The first tapestry our artists Bracha and Menachem Lavee designed for us was this Shavuot/Sivan tapestry, number nine in the order of the entire commission...more

May 26, 2006

Tapestry #8: Iyar: From Zikaron to Zion

Two events, more than any other, mark the twentieth century Jewish experience, and they occurred decades apart: The Holocaust and the Birth of the State...more

May 12, 2006

Tapestry #7: Nisan- “Passing On and Passing Over”

Passover and the Jewish Values of L’dor Vador (From Generation to Generation and V’higadita l’vincha (And you shall tell your child…) I look at Tapestry...more

March 31, 2006

Tapestry #6: Adar

I say it all the time that we all have only three things in common: we are born, we die, and we lose. We lose...more

March 10, 2006