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hen Lauren Isenberg
Zinn wanted to infuse
her life with more
Judaism, she faced a
stumbling block: remembering the
Friday night Shabbat prayers.
To help herself along, the Ann
Arbor-based artist created The Blessings.
A set of four framed and painted can-
vas "cheat sheets," the series of wall
hangings show the Kiddush, the
Shabbat candles, the challah and the
blessing of the children, each with the
proper prayer in Hebrew.
So began a journey that has taken
Zinn deeper into her Jewish roots and
encouraged a bevy of artistic endeavors.
Despite years at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek and many summers
spent at the Conservative movement's
Camp Ramah, Zinn, who grew up in
Birmingham, "wanted something
more, and I wasn't finding it." For a
while, she looked into other religions
to find the spiritual fulfillment she
needed, and for 10 years found "spiri-
tual sustenance" in Eastern religions.
But then a couple of dreams and a
serendipitous four-day trip to Israel
brought her home.
"In the summer of 1996, I had a
dream about a friend who lives in
-
Israel," Zinn recalls. "I started having
dreams about the Torah service, so I
decided to go [back to] Israel. I hadn't
been [there] in 17 years.
"Just being in Israel and staying with
my friend, who had become religious,
[reconnected me] with the land and the
people and the language," she says.
When she returned to Ann Arbor,
Zinn started going to services at Beth
Israel, a synagogue where she had
taught Sunday school a decade earlier.
She wanted to bring more Judaism
into her home, too.
"My friend had mezuzot on all her
doors, and I wanted to do that," she
recalls. But the cost of buying
mezuzah covers and scrolls for each
doorway ran high. Zinn decided to
make the covers herself.
Using canvas fabric and paint to
create the covers and squares of velcro
on the backs, she" secured the hand- AEI
made mezuzot to every door frame in
her two-story home, and went on for
a time to sell the canvas covers, at a
modest price, at both the Ann Arbor
and West Bloomfield Jewish commu-
nity centers.
Zinn, who has a bachelor's degree
in philosophy from the University of
Michigan, a master's in philosophy
from York University in Toronto and a."'" 4
doctorate in educational planning
.
Lauren Isenberg Zinn displays a wall
hanging that ePicts special memories of
her father.
from the U-M, now sells her work by
commission only.
She is not fond of art that doesn't
have a use. The earthy innovator
insists that her creations have a practi-
cal, as well as a pretty,_side. The wall
hangings instruct her on what prayers
to say. The affordable and artistic
mezuzot covers are a mitzvah, she says.
The artist also created a Shabbat
bag, with Shabbat prayers on one side,
prayers for Havdalah on the other, and
inside, the paraphernalia for observing
the Sabbath.
She has crafted pillows and quilts
from pictures and memorabilia of peo-
ple who have been important in her
life, and everything, insists Zinn, must
be washable.
There is a small room in Zinn's Ann
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