Eitan Kedmy

Eitan Kedmy is a mandala artist who teaches others how to draw and paint mandala art as a way to develop personal and spiritual growth. He owned his own graphic design company in Tel Aviv for more than 20 years, designing logos, illustrating children’s books, creating cartoons for newspapers and teaching drawing and graphic design. He has also contributed to many drawing, sculpture and illustration exhibitions in various museums and galleries in Israel.

Check out his Instagram @eitankedmy.mandala

Eitan’s work will be on display throughout the lobby on the walls alongside registration throughout Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Click on the images below to learn more about the inspiration for each mandala.

Lauryn Axelrod

Lauryn Axelrod is a multidiscplinary, community-based artist. She has worked in communities from coast-to-coast, and around the world. Among her diverse projects, she has created community-based performances in Vermont, developed community clowns in Ecuador, installed large-scale photographic portraits of endangered fishing communities in Alaska, made documentaries in the Middle East and with at-risk youth in Texas, created poetry with inmates in correctional facilities, developed story radio with seniors, and worked with local artists to create Peace Poles in California. She has presented in TEDx, and taught workshops around the world.

Lauryn is also an ordained Interfaith/Interspiritual Minister, Hospice Chaplain and founder of Three Mountains Interspiritual New Monastic Community. She is also the author of Ten Words: An Interspiritual Guide to Becoming Better People in a Better World (Three Mountains Press, 2024) and writes the Substack newsletter, “Radical Spirituality: Getting the Root of What Matters.” Learn more at www.laurynaxelrod.com

Lauryn’s work will be on display on Yom Kippur Eve and Day in the courtyard*

*In case of inclement weather, display will be located in the lobby