SACRED OBJECTS

Read the remarkable story of our Holocaust Torah's journey home to us. Keep scrolling and reading to learn about all of our sacred objects.

TORAH & ORNAMENTS	ARK
RABBI STAN'S TALLIT	HIGH HOLY DAYS PRAYERBOOK

   
   
   

TORAH

Our Torah was a entrusted to us by the Westminster Synagogue of London and the Holocaust Torah Museum and Trust.

Click here to read her remarkable story.

We are grateful to Ron Seger, Torah scribe, for the restoration of the Torah.

The Tree of Life Torah rollers & Breastplate
were made by Ray Moskowitz, a Holocaust Survivior for our Torah.

The Torah Mantle and Tallis
The silk Torah cover was lovingly made by Eva Robbins.
The Tallis was hand painted on silk by Ruti Hafsadi, an Israeli artist and friend, and
The Mantle was designed and put together by Karen DeMille.

The Hanging Letters Breastplate ,
was contributed by the family and friends of Barbara Greenberg Hill and dedicated to her memory. It contains some of the original letters from our Torah, suspended in acrylic.

The Yad
was created for our Torah by Holocaust survivor Eva Nathanson, who is a silversmith and contains a crystal found on Mt Sinai by Yael Taubman.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ARK

 
 
 
 
 
 
    The Ark
    was lovingly made
    by Earl Appel for our Torah.
    It is designed to travel,
    and moves every year
    to the House of the Book
    for High Holy Days
    from Rabbi Stan's study.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

RABBI STAN'S TALLIT

A LOVING GIFT FROM OUR COMMUNITY

Rabbi Stan's Tallit
was created out of our desire to demonstrate to Rabbi Stan how much he was loved by his community.
In a series of brainstorming sessions with Peggi Sturm, Gayle Gale, Karen de Mille, Stacey Rosenbaum came up with the concept: Have everyone write a blessing, prayer or message to Stan. Then heat transfer that blessing to ribbon and sew the ribbons onto the Tallit.

Gayle, Karen and Stacey took responsibility for the organization and execution of the project. Many "secret meetings and communications" later, the blessings were gathered and the hard work of sewing began.
With the help of Michael Barclay, Jacqui Dumais, Barbara Goldfus, Joy Krauthammer, Deborah Mayer, Charlotte Lynn, Eve Robbins, Charles Sherman and the many others who participated the Tallit was completed. It was presented to Rabbi Stan at our Hannukah Celebration in 1997, along with a Tallit Pin by our resident silversmith, Eva Nathanson.

And, he was surprised! And grateful and honored.
 
 
 
 

THE HIGH HOLY DAYS PRAYERBOOK

Rabbi Stan has built our prayerbook over the last 20 years from a myriad of Jewish and other philosophical sources. In 1995 Stacey Rosenbaum and Joe Utsler undertook the project of a lifetime with Stan: to update our prayerbook, remove the gender bias, turn it from a collection of zeroxed pages into a real book and make it easy to read and attractive. In other words, over hundreds of hours, they typeset our prayerbook, in Hebrew and in English, added inspirational photos and drawings as well.

It was ready in time for High Holy Days, 1997.

So far, 496 people have purchased a copy to use and to treasure. We hope you'll want a copy too.
 
 
Photos courtesy of Leslie Goldman, Joy Krauthammer & Lynda Levy.