Women's Torah Project Crowns in Metalsmith Magazine
The Curator of Contemporary Judaica at the Jewish Museum of New York, Daniel Belasco, recently wrote an article for Metalsmith Magazine vol 31/no 3, titled: "Post-Ethnic Judaica Today." He included the crowns I created for the Women's Torah Project. Here's what he wrote:
"The Women’s Torah Project in Seattle, the first Torah entirely written and adorned by women, first read publicly in 2010, is among the most ambitious recent American synagogue commissions. California-based metalsmith Aimee Golant contributed rimonim, or finials, for the pair of wood staves. Golant, who has created mezuzahs for two Space Shuttle missions, and for the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, turned an object typically associated with fruit (rimonim means pomegranate in Hebrew) or royalty (a crown is another common type) into two-dimensional decorative flourishes. She likens the pair to open doors, and they are reminiscent of the baroque ornament flanking the facades of Jesuit churches in Rome. The use of copper, an unusual choice for contemporary Judaica, lends the pieces a warm humility."
To read the entire article visit: Post Ethnic: Judaica Today
Here are the crowns:

"The Women’s Torah Project in Seattle, the first Torah entirely written and adorned by women, first read publicly in 2010, is among the most ambitious recent American synagogue commissions. California-based metalsmith Aimee Golant contributed rimonim, or finials, for the pair of wood staves. Golant, who has created mezuzahs for two Space Shuttle missions, and for the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, turned an object typically associated with fruit (rimonim means pomegranate in Hebrew) or royalty (a crown is another common type) into two-dimensional decorative flourishes. She likens the pair to open doors, and they are reminiscent of the baroque ornament flanking the facades of Jesuit churches in Rome. The use of copper, an unusual choice for contemporary Judaica, lends the pieces a warm humility."
To read the entire article visit: Post Ethnic: Judaica Today
Here are the crowns:


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