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

Tapestry #5 Shevat: A Month To Care and Repair

The second chapter of Genesis begins as the first creation story, depicted on our windows, is completed. God blesses the seventh day and makes it...more

January 27, 2006

Tapestry #3: Kislev: Hoda’ah V’Mazon

Each one of our tapestries is, first and foremost, a statement of our congregational values.  Our beautification committee sat and contemplated all of the values...more

November 11, 2005

Tapestry #2 Cheshvan: From Bitterness to Blessing

From our blue Gates of Prayer p. 453: According to our calendar, the month of Cheshvan begins on Wednesday night, November 2, 2005. O Lord...more

October 28, 2005

Tapestry #1 Tishre: The World as We Pray it Should Be

Rosh Hashanah A.M. 5766 10/4/05 Looking at the Old City of Jerusalem from the balcony of my hotel that Friday evening, I was filled with...more

October 4, 2005