I addressed them to God. If you see my mother, I would write to God, tell her that things are not going well in Budapest. Today a girl refused to sit next to me in school. She said she couldn't sit next to a Jew. Rosenbaum, now an artist in Silver Spring, MD, understands better how art brought her closer to God and to her mother as a child suffering under a post-war Communist regime.
Art unlocks our innate nature to be happy.
Art enables a child to accept herself fully. The world of color is the world of the emotions, art teacher Rena Fruchter of Silver Spring, Md. tells us. Art deals with profound emotions, she says, such as deep religious feelings. It s not my personal credo, it's what the tradition tells us. Judaism is only coherent if you experience God as central to that tradition.