Posted in Foliage, My Patterns, Other Community Projects, Uncategorized on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
My branch of the TikkunTree has sprouted new fruit. Amidst the variety of leaves this tree has produced (simple single and double leaves, Safed leaves, Undone leaves, YingYang leaves, Cabled Co-existence Leaves), etc), this imaginary olive tree has finally yielded its first olive branch! How was it done? I knit a few olives [...]
Posted in Frogs, My Patterns, Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Preparation for the Jewish festival of Passover has kept my tikkunknitting needles flying, and although I was engrossed with the work of creating a ” knitted seder” for my family and the Pattern for Peacebuilders series, the TikkunTree and Israeli-Palestinian conflict were never far from my thoughts. Our Passover seder table includes a plate [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Sometimes winter seems to go on and on, and on, and on …. and the cold and damp seeps into every corner of life. Even so there are moments of light, premonitions of spring thaw, faint scents of new growth. A few days ago I looked outside the window and noticed the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
As interest in the TikkunTree grows daily, so have the requests for flyers and brochures so that more of us can invite others to participate. Downloadable copies of full- and half-page flyers, as well as the project’s “business” cards, are now available on the Share the News page.
Please do use these materials to share the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Greetings!
Though not everything is quite in order, we’re ready to begin our collaborative work. The remaining gaps on the website will be filled over the coming weeks. In the meantime …
A TikkunTree is a peace tree, an olive tree. It’s name derives from the Hebrew word “tikkun”, or repair (of the world). [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Welcome to the site of the TikkunTree Project, a community art project dedicated to advocacy of peace between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and Diaspora. Please return soon for details about the project.
Many thanks to Armenian tile artist Neshan Balian, Balian Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem for permission to use the image of his “Olive Tree [...]
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