Author: Alex Kojfman

In the early 1990s, Temple Israel of Hollywood commissioned the creation of this original Holocaust Memorial candelabra for our annual Yom Hashoah commemoration in memory of the six million Jews […]

Belle Osipow’s daughter, the artist Lisa Bloomfield, believes Picnic by the Sea stemmed from a trip to Europe in the early ‘70s. Aesthetically, the piece includes a gradual change of […]

Temple Israel possesses 5 silver Torah pieces created by the 19th century German firm Lazarus Posen. The firm was founded by Lazarus Jacob Posen, a silversmith and retailer of Polish […]

9’ x 6’ (approximate) Late Nineteenth Century Central Asian / Turcoman silk hand embroidered wedding blanket. Overall floral pattern on beige linen background containing various and different motifs and medallions, […]

In 1985, Laurie Gross Schaefer created this piece of floating fiber art with no horizon line in response to her inspiration of the leadership of Rabbi David Lieber, the President […]

Parisian Jewish artist Abram Krol is represented in major museum collections and exhibitions of great painters of the world. The dramatic lithographs (handmade prints made in limited quantities – in […]

Ketubah b Originally from Isfahan (modern day Iran) dating to the late 19th century, these beautiful watercolor pieces of art are Jewish marital contracts known as a ketubah.  Handwritten at […]

Finials a  Finials b  Here are two pairs of silver Torah finials or rimonim; one made in Warsaw 1887 (a), and the other made in Aden in the 10th Century […]

Each year on the harvest festival of Sukkot, Jews from around the world, take special efforts to obtain a lulav (a collection of palm, myrtle and willow branches) and an […]

This reader’s desk cover is made of velvet and silver thread couched embroidery and has an elaborately-worded inscription indicating that it was dedicated to the synagogue in the town of […]