Catch-up

I cannot believe that this is the first time I am blogging in several months!

I have been very busy. Literally the day I finished my final exams, I started work doing file review for summer programs across the country and around the world. After that I spend a week in the happiest place on earth, Bethany Beach, DE of course! Where were you thinking?

A week after that, I started a four week long Hebrew language immersion program, called  the Ivriyon.

At the end of July, I went to the NewCAJE Jewish education conference. This was paid for by the Admissions Department of my Graduate School, to which I am eternally grateful.

Last week, I was at a two day training institute with the Jewish Education Project, for Hebrew school.

Okay, now that we are all caught up, the art I want to talk about is a project I participated in while at the NewCAJE conference. One of the sessions I attended was with Nancy Katz, an artist who among other things, facilitates community art projects. One of her projects is creating healing scarves, which is something that I was able to do during the conference. The purpose of this project is for a community to send messages of healing to members of the community who are ill. Once someone has recovered, the scarf is passed to the next person who needs support during an illness. The medium of this project is silk, four scarves are created on one large piece of silk and separated later. 
Each scarf says, "Oh Lord, please heal (her) now. אנא אל נא רפא נא לה". In the left hand corner of the picture are some completed scarves.  

Photo Courtesy of Talia Raymond