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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! I am still up to my neck in all things related to freshening up the upstairs floor of our home and boy is it a mess! No major construction, just repainting, new light fixtures, turning a laundry counter into a kitchenette, and closing once open closets with doors. Hoping to create some DIY art for the walls, but will see what I realistically have time for in the next week. I have picked up some great woven rugs to hang on the walls in a few spots, baskets and touches of gold to try and give a summer…
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Jewish Stained Glass Windows Celebrate Triumph Over Tragedy
These beautiful and very modern stained glass windows are located in the Podil Synagogue in Kiev, Ukraine. They are colorful and graphic and I do wish I could get a breakdown of all the elements and their meaning, as there was certaily a great deal of thought and effort put into their design. One of the overwhelming feelings I get from looking at this set of stained glass windows, located in the lobby of the Synagogue, is the idea of triumph over tragedy, which is certainly a very fitting concept now that we are in the period on the Jewish calender called “the three weeks” leading up to the very…
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The Historic Podil Synagogue, Kiev, Ukraine
One of the greatest delights on our trip to Kiev and the Ukraine this past Passover was getting to know the historic Podil Synagogue in Kiev, which is part of a small compound also containing a kosher meat restaurant, a kosher breakfast, and early dinner cafe, a kosher food store, a kosher hotel, and a boy’s yeshiva. Ah yes, and there is also a matzo bakery! The synagogue has been restored to all its glory, and it was such a relief to come to a foreign city and have everything we needed at our fingertips. In the USA and Canada one can find more than enough kosher products in any…
