Month: June 2020

A modelof an eternal light inside a glass-walled chapel at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The words are: kadosh, kadosh, kadosh. Holy, holy, holy. Made from balsa wood and bristol board.

Rear view of the Bible Archway in the Bible Gardens at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Photographed in the late 1990s.

The inscriptionon the center panel of the Bible Archway in the Bible Gardens at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Photographed in the late 1990s.

A studio photograph of a wrought iron Moses. In situ, the wrought iron is fixed to a large rough-hewn boulder. Bible Gardens, Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Full-scale drawing in pencil for a bas-relief map of the Land of Israel for the Bible Archway in the Bible Gardens at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The plaster sculpture was executed in the New York studio of Rochette and Parzini. The Uffizi Galleries cast the 6 x 12 foot bronze panel in Florence, Italy.

The Land of Israel map would become the centerpiece of the Bible Archway in the Bible Gardens, Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, New Jersey. The Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy cast the 6 x 12 foot panel in bronze.

Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at the dedication of the Bible Archway in June, 1957. It was only one many features in The Bible Gardens in Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey. A brochure from the cemetery notes:

The Symbolic Arches of the Six Days of Creation: The Emblems of the Twelve Tribes; The Divine Oath to the Patriarchs, The Bronze Portrait Map of the Holy Land with scores of carvings illustrating more than two hundred exciting Bible episodes.

The Bible Archway in the Bible Gardens at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Reuben and Simeon from the 12 Tribes on the Bible Archway in the Bible Gardens at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey.