The main sanctuary and chapel at Temple Sinai in Sandy Springs, GA are spaces that can be described as embodying understated elegance. A sanctuary seating area is surrounded by oversized glass windows and looks out onto a multitude of trees and open sky, bringing the outside world directly  into the sanctuary space.

My Torah cover designs integrate nature by selecting fabric colors of green, blue and gold ,while the sanctuary sculptural wood door motifs of Jerusalem building shapes of domes, rectangles and squares become design elements in the needlepoint borders, sewn with threads of pink, cream and white. The Holocaust Torah cover with its pure simplicity of whiteness and bare front, without a silver breastplate, purposely resonates differently.

Each synagogue commission has its own dialogue with me as the designer, to come up with Torah designs that reflect a unique vision bringing Hiddur Mitzvah (the beautification of a mitzvah) and a heightened spirituality to that sanctuary’s  sacred space. The Temple Sinai Art committee solicited 24 congregant volunteers to create the needlepoint borders.