Berit Engen WEFT and D'RASH – A Thousand Jewish Tapestries







Presenting about the commission of ten tapestries, permanently installed at Temple Har Zion in River Forest, IL.
 (Chicago Architecture Center's annual fall event, "Open House Chicago," in 2022.)


 
Below is a list of seventeen suggested topics for presentations in synagogues and other religious institutions, libraries, schools, social, and care institutions, etc. Click on any topic to see the respective flier.
You can read about me as a presenter in the first flier, "GENERAL INFORMATION." 
 
 
           #0: GENERAL INFORMATION 

           #1: MY FLAXEN TANAKH MAP
                 The Scriptures Color-Coded

           #2: THE SIBLINGS IN GENESIS
                 Love, Rivalry, and Murder
 
           #3:
 THE STORY OF JOSEPH
                 A Seemingly Endless Shalshelet

           #4: THE FIVE M'GILLOT 
                 Slim Books, Wide Scopes

           #5: INSPIRED BY THE BOOK OF RUTH 
                 The Beauty of Biblical Minimalism

           #6: SONG OF THE SEA 
                 And a Man with a Plan 

           #7: OUR SACRED SCROLLS 
                 Shalom, Good Lookin’! 

           #8: OUR PRAYERBOOK 
                 The Rock We Fashioned

           #9: U'NTANEH TOKEF 
                 Prayer Without Gray 

          #10: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODIM 
                  A Liturgical Chant from Trondheim and Skokie

          #11: HOLY DAYS 
                  Not Just Holidays

          #12: THE WHIMSICAL HAGGADAH 
                  A Colorful Prayerbook 

          #13: THE SHOAH 
                  Songs in the Face of Death

          #14: LOST BUT FOUND 
                  From Dark to Shrine: Three Stories

          #15: MOUNT SINAI ON ROUTE 43 
                  A Commission by Temple Har Zion

          #16: YIDDISHE OUTPOURINGS 
                  Murmured and Moaned, Wailed and Whined, Voiced with Joy

          #17: TRANSLATED INTO TAPESTRIES 
                  The Challenge in Blue of Living Between Two Languages

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