To create art for Jewish faith communities requires the utmost sensitivity and respect for interpretations of historical and theological attitudes towards visual imagery in the Jewish tradition.

At present I have created only one image for the Jewish faith. Located in the lobby of Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Ann Arbor, it takes the symbolic form of the “Tree of Life. I designed a fully carved tree, an olive tree in this case, because the olive tree has great meaning in the long history of the Jewish people. Flanking the tree, the names of donors and other honorees are arranged in dignified rank and file. Above the image of the tree, I carved in Hebrew characters the ancient prayer that is intoned when retiring the Torah at the completion of services, “It is a Tree of Life to those who hold fast to it.”