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Torah Stitch by Stitch: The legacy of Temma Gentles
Ten years ago a modest project, designed to engage women with Torah, blossomed into an international, interfaith, intergenerational celebration of sacred text and art. Just this past winter the last pieces were assembled into our stunning, fully cross-stitched representation of the Torah. Sadly, Temma passed away suddenly this summer, before we could find a place to display the completed work.
To honour Temma’s memory, we have established a fund in her name, to ensure her dream becomes a reality.
This fund will be used to build out the versatile display structure that allows the work to be shown in many configurations. It will also ensure the secure, climate controlled, storage of the Tapestry until a suitable home is found for it.
THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS
Angel
Shain Family
Torchbearer
Royal De Versailles Jewellers
Guardian
The Azrieli Foundation • Joe & Marilynne Cass • Wendy Eisen • Kristina Landstrom-Jaffe • Brian & Joan Mirsky • National Bank of Canada • Moshe & Dara Ronen
Pillar
Amy Bayersdorfer • Victoria Cowan • Sara & Rick Charney & Family • Michael Dorfman • Fabricland • Ken Field • The Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation • Susan & Edwin Hawken • Ellis Jacob • Cathy LaBrish (in honour of the late Irene and Gordon LaBrish) • Richard and Edwina Mills • David Rosenberg & Rachel Zbar • Marilyn & Gerry Wise • Yosef Wosk • Barry Yontef
Cornerstone
Earl Bederman & Ann McPherson • Bill & Taffy Cass • Adrienne Folb • Anita & Jack Goren • Bill & Janet Gula • Julia Hale • Helik Family (in loving memory of Joyce Baker & Olga & Leda Baran, all exemplary women of faith & each a skilled needle woman in her own right) • Florence Hertzman • Shirley Hui • Birthe Jorgensen • Paul Kay • Louise Mandell • Murray Nightingale • The Paley Family • Janet & John Read • Stan and Miriam Schiffman • Christine Shepherd • Elizabeth M Short • Cantor Linda Sue & Richard Sohn • Joel Troster and Sheryl Smolkin • Linda Wells • Susan Wisniewski & Roslyn Katz (in honour of Rafi Kosower z’’l) • Miriam Wyman
Illuminator
Jane Aronovitch • Susan Baskin • Amy Bayersdorfer • Alan Billing • Rochelle Bloom • Howard & Linda Book • Alan and Sheila Buckstein • Amy Cahners • Howard Marcy Carr • Barbara Chatz • Karen Chisvin • Roseanne Conrad • Brenda & Jerry Conway • Barry Cracower • Leslie Dan • Susan Devins • Madeline D’Alessio (in honour of my mama, Norma Krupenie, who lives and loves Torah each day) • Larry &Cheryl Englander • Dorette S Feit (in loving memory of Ellen & David Sonnenschein) • Norm Finkelberg & Patti Olshina • Barbara Freedman • Claire & David Freeman • Bernard Fresco and Karin Simon • Baruch Frydman-Kohl • Patricia Gill • Ralph & Pam Goldsilver • Amy Harshman Green • Beth Greenberg • Linda Joan Greenbaum (I dedicate my contribution to this important & vital exhibit to my granddaughter Meira) • Pam Hamovitch • Fran Haskell • Shelley Hebert (in loving memory of Mollye Plotka Smolkin z”l) • Elaine Harris • Barbara Heller • Lynn Hughes • Deborah Jarvis • Russ & Sylvia Jones • Deborah Katchko-Gray • Carol Kline • Devorah Komesaroff • Michele Saunders Koppelman • Rona Kosansky • Rebecca Lascoe • Carlen Lea Lesser • Charlie Levin • Harriet Liebmann • Sandi Leibovici (in honour of my mother Carola & late Aunt Cleo) • Flora Macdonald • Stephanie Milgram • Susan Mogil • Vivian Molnar • Linda Morganstein • Sol & Queenie Nayman • Raymond Oster (in memory of Karen Oster) • Sara & Steven Petroff (in honour of the Darchei Noam community) • Ann Posen • Janice Rock • Joanne & Kevin Roher • Margo Rosen • Marion Rubinstein (in memory of my mother Dorothea Hamilton) • Rochelle Saidman (in memory of my husband Lee Harris Saidman z”l) • Lorraine & Alan Sandler (in tribute to my late sister Sheila Broomberg, one of the stitchers) • Ellen Scheinberg • Reena Levine Seltzer (in memory of my mother Malka Levine & all the work of her hands) • Michael Shain • Shari Schwartz • Ruth Shushan & Mark Pancer • Marilyn Spearin • Allan Stone (in memory of Lori Stone) • Barb Stoner • Susan Stronell • Gloria Temkin • Arleen & Joel Teplinsky (in memory of our mothers Fay Green & Dorothy Teplinsky, who taught us the importance & joy of creating beauty) • Marcy & Stan Tepner • Rabbi Bill, Deborah & Max Tepper • Daniela Tiger • Ellen Tohn • Arlene M Witty • Joy Wolfson
Even More Chai
Linda Allen (in honour of Marcia Cohn Spiegel) • Fran Bleviss • Anne Brown • Jean Eppinger Bronstein • David & Toby Brooks • Doug Beube • Congregation Beth El, Sudbury MA • Mitzi Coffman • Elizabeth Mintoft-Cohen • Claire Dallaire • Marlene Fair-Fischer • Caryl Frank • Paula & Dan Fraser (in honour of our children & grandchildren, L’dor v’dor: Benjie, Erica, Austin, Emery & Felix) • Bonnie Friedman • Maurene Naomi Fritz • Marny Gibson • Barbara Goldstein • Anne Greenstein • Ruth Ellen and Sheldon Greenwood • Margaret Grotzinger • Julia F Hale • Honey Halpern • Janice Harder • Evan Haskell • Susan Helwig • Ferne Sherkin Langer • David & Fran Levin (to Amy, in honour of her contributions to the project) • Karen Lewis • Patricia Little • Liza Roos Lucy • Wendy Margolese • Ruth Marks • Alice Mawdsley • Charlotte Mickie • Linda Moore • Louise Moss • Robie Myers • Lin Neifert • Robert Nelder & Peter Laiken • Toni Olshen • Giovanna Peel • Karen Pressel • Toby Rose • Dawn Rosen • Sandra Sandler • Sandi Schafer • Anne Schattmann • Peter & Leslie Sevitt • Stan & Anne Shabason • Bluma & Eli Teram • Hesh & Edie Troper • Usher-Jones Family • Julia Walsh • Kirsten Ward • Wendy Weinberg • Judi Davidson Wolf • Harvey & Shami Zimmerman
Double Chai
Sarah Lea Altose • Tanis Asselin • Connie Aster • Nancy Barry • Diane Bernbaum • Renee Bouthot • Eric Brewer • Martha Brody • Burati Family • Erin Cantor • Barbara Cartwright • Robert Chodos • Debra Cohen • Irene Cohen • Natasha Davidson • Francoise Drayer • Larry & Cheryl Englander • Jackie Eskin • Barbara Jene Fisher • Eva Ormut-Fleishman • Kathy Gold • Barb Goodfellow • Karen Goodis • Anita & Jack Goren • June & Stuart Graff (in honour of our grandchildren) • Linda J Greenbaum • Jill Greenberg • Merle Haber • Anne Greenstein • C Hammer (in honour of my dear friend Amy Bayersdorfer) • Pamela Hamovitch • Jana Hayward • Melody Hebscher • Jodi Groberg Hodorov • K Hunter • Carol Katz • Adrienne Kirschner • Lois Klein • Susan Klement (in honour of Amy Bitton) • Rachelle Lederman • Elise Leonard • Barbara Levine • Audrey Madans • Marty & Diane Madonik • Harold Mansfield • Jane Marvy (in memory of my beloved mother-in-law Mimi Marvy & dear niece Marci Thompson.) Monique Mendel (in memory of my grandparents) • Greg Michalenko • Louise Moskovitz • Sima Levy-Nahum (in loving memory of Rose & Raymond Dorfman z”l) • Ruth Nieboer (in honour of Sadie Finkelstein) • Paula Perlmutar-Oretsky • Diane Parkin • Dena Perlmutar • Patricia Ann Romans • Susan Rose • N Rubin • Naomi Schwarzbaum • Eve Sky • Diane L Sredl • Paul Socken • Nancy Struyk • Brena Taylor Doug & Debbie Wicklander • Carol Yutkowitz (in memory of my aunt & uncles Opass)
Chai
Miriam Abrahams • Fran Aiken • Fern Allen • Beth Baker • Rachel Bayersdorfer • Janice Benatar & Elan Levitan • Sandra Deitz • Nancy Emerson • Marny Fischer • Richard Goodfellow • Louise Gorby • Elaine Harris • Rachel Haskell • Eliana Jacobowitz • Libby Kahn • Arlene Jacobs • Joan R Katz • Adrienne Kirschner • Fran Langsner • Reva Malkin • Alice Nagus • Meredith Neria • Barbara C Neuberg • Rachelle Palley • Beth & Steve Finkel Rabin • Rebecca Radzinsky • Jane Rips • Ethel Rubenstein • Arlette Schulman • S Sharron • Joan Simon • Anne Sinnot • Marilyn Spiegel • Paula Warren • Maureen Cunningham Zug