Dan and Naphtali

Dan and Naphtali
Dan and Naphtali from the 12 Tribes on the Bible Archway at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey

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

Gad and Asher

Gad and Asher
Gad and Asher from the 12 Tribes on the Bible Archway at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey

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

Checking the Land of Israel

The Land of Israel
Ismar David, center, checking the execution of a bas-relief Land of Israel map in the New York studio of Rochette and Panzini. Stephen S. Kaiser stands at left, Leon Shipper, right.

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 Land of Israel

Drawing for a bas relief
Full size drawing for the bas relief, LAND OF ISRAEL

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.…

Symbol of Israel

Symbol of Israel
A detail from the bronze panel, The Land of Israel, at Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, New Jersey.

A detail of the a bas-relief map, the Land of Israel, made for the Bible Archway in the Bible Gardens at Beth Israel Memorial Park in Woodbridge, New Jersey.…

Wrought Iron Moses

Moses
Wrought iron Moses, Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, New Jersey

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.…

Moses

Wrought iron Moses
Wrought iron Moses at Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, NJ, photographed in the late 1990s.

Wrought iron Moses, affixed to a twelve-ton boulder imported from Mount Carmel. Bible Gardens, Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1956, photographed in the late 1990s.…

Moses

Wrought iron Moses
Wrought iron Moses at Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, NJ, photographed in the late 1990s.

Wrought iron Moses affixed to a twelve-ton boulder imported from Mount Carmel. Bible Gardens, Beth Israel Memorial Park, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1956, photographed in the late 1990s.…

The Four Chaplains

Preliminary drawing for Washington Park Cemetery
Preliminary drawing for Washington Park Cemetery, pencil

Washington Park Cemetery already had a sculpture of the four chaplains and presumably wanted to build a mausoleum with this theme as well.The four chaplains (two Protestant, one Catholic and one Jewish) served on th S.S.…