Torah Shield

Exterior wall of synagogue featuring Star of David on the right side of the wall and a ribbon-like sculpture in the middle of the wall on a prominent vertical section that juts out from the rest of the wall, with inscription in English reading "And the bush was not consumed."

B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey)

Percival Goodman won the commission to design the building for Congregation B’nai Israel after speaking at a two-day symposium organized in 1947 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to…

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Painting of man with eyes closed holding Torah scroll.

Carrying the Scrolls of the Law

Simeon Solomon’s Carrying the Scrolls of Law, like other pre-Raphaelite paintings, explores the themes of spirituality and religious devotion. Solomon also explores the beauty of the young man…

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Photograph of side of three-story building exterior featuring sleek, curved balconies.

Tel Aviv

This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…

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B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey)

Carrying the Scrolls of the Law

Tel Aviv