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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
New York Jewish Museum Exhibits
Detroiter Kushner's Synagogue Models
VISIT
.
NEW YORK — Detroiter
Aid Kushner will exhibit a
series of 10 miniature
synagogues at the Union of
Caricatures
for your party
By
SAM FIELD
Call
399-1320
American Hebrew Congre-
gations' House of Living
Judaism through Sept. 6.
Most of Kushner's rep-
licas were inspired by the
history and architecture of
synagogues in the United
States.
Those on exhibit and the
dates when they were first
built are: the Mill Street
Synagogue, 1730, New
York; the Mikveh - Israel -
Emanuel Synagogue, 1732,
Curacao, West Indies;
Touro Synagogue, 1763,
Newport, R.I.; Mikveh Is-
rael Synagogue, 1825,
Charleston, S. C.; Plum
Street Temple, 1866, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio; Beth Israel
Synagogue, 1860, Portland,
Ore.; Gates of Heaven
Synagogue, 1863, Madison,
Wis.; Central Synagogue,
1880, New York; and Bnai
Sholom Temple Israel,
1914, Chicago, Ill.
Kushner was first in-
spired to do the minia-
tures when he decided —
while recovering from
illness in 1970 — to make
replicas of all the build-
ings which had housed
Temple Beth El in Detroit
since 1850.
Using the skills he had
developed as a sign painter
and in building model rail-
roads, the craftsman
worked in lightweight wood
with an ordinary utility
knife. Sponges, furnace fil-
ters, cardboard, wrapping
paper, playing cards and
costume jewelry are also
used.
In all of the 50 model
synagogues that Kushner
has made to date he has
used photographs from the
American Jewish Historical
Society for authenticity.
Kushner's artistic efforts
also include custom letter-
ing and shadow-box type
pictures along with models
of many American histori-
cal buildings. He was re-
cently elected president of
the Brotherhood of Temple
Beth El.
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