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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