Guild Artists
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Cynthia Winograd Spritzer
Her extra-curricular life included being a founding member of three synagogues.(one in her home), a staff member of Hadassah and one of the beginning founders of The Masorti Movement (conservative) in Israel. In addition she was a very active Rabbi’s wife, both in Hillel (U of Wisc.) and pulpits in Israel, Mexico, and California, where the artistic beauty of The Jewish World played a constant role in her activities. She designed and helped to design all aspects of the Synagogue, as well as producing art shows. She taught art as a therapeutic tool at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv and presented art as a diagnostic tool in workshops for the Israeli family Therapy Assoc., Lesley College in Israel and Lesley College in Boston,Mass. Her sculptures have been exhibited and won numerous awards, among them a series of bronze sculptures titled “The Prophets” and a bronze sculpture titled “Sarah” from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem,Israel. She recently moved to Maryland from Jerusalem. In Israel she worked in a closed ward of a psychiatric hospital (using art as a diagnostic & therapeutic tool.). She developed programs and workshops using Jewish life ceremonies and art (adapted by the Israeli Ministry of Health). As the founding director of day care treatment for psychotics in Israel, art was a valuable tool and blessings were a priority for work with psychotics. It has been natural for her to combine her love of Judaism and her love of art. Making Jewish Blessings has become a passion with her. Her sculpture and art are in homes throughout the U.S and Israel. Cynthia Winogard Spritzer |
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