Make new friends, learn something new, create community with your fellow 70s+ community at TBA!
Mondays from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM at Temple Beth Am.
Enjoy coffee/tea and conversation on campus! We will invite speakers to address the group on various topics every few weeks.
November 1- Author Wanda Peretz
Wanda Peretz has spent the past decade immersed in the artistry of Poland’s “Lost Wooden Synagogues.” In 2018, she led a “Hiddur Mitzvah” Adult Coloring Project with 70 members of TBA’s Library Minyan, transforming the alcove above the Torah reading table in the Dorff Nelson Chapel into an homage to this vanished tradition.
That summer of communal creativity inspired her to write a narrative poem, which became the foundation of a six-year remote collaboration with Russian-Israeli artist Boris Shapiro. Together they created a unique picture book, The Ceiling, which transports readers back 300 years to follow Israel and Isaac, two itinerant Jewish artists commissioned to paint the ingeniously re-engineered ceiling of the wooden synagogue in a town called Gwoździec.
Wanda now returns to TBA and Pressman Academy—working with middle school students, the JLC, and Seniors in Sync—to explore and reimagine the vibrant floral designs, fantastical animals, and Hebrew prayers that once adorned these extraordinary sanctuaries.
