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S hoshana Gugenheim, MEd is a Torah scribe, community artist and educator. Working with diverse populations throughout Israel and the United States, she engages the arts as a means for transformation and social change. Shoshana is one of 5 women in the world working as a Torah scribe (www.womenstorah.com). Shoshana has served as an artist-in-residence with Temple Shaare Emeth of St. Louis, The Crossroads Center for Youth at Risk, The Arad Arts Project, Camp Newman of Santa Rosa, California and twice with Elat Chayyim, a Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut. She draws from her background in Jewish studies, multi-cultural and informal education, ecology and counseling as she implements the arts across boundaries in diverse environments. Her workshops and residencies incorporate visual art, Jewish text, writing, movement, song, ritual-making and much more. When she is not in the studio, Shoshana can be found hiking in the desert, dancing contact improvisation, practicing yoga, cooking her favorite soup or drinking chai in the hammock. Shoshana resides with her husband, writer Avraham Tertes, on a Moshav in Emek HaElah (the Valley of the Goddess), a short distance from Jerusalem , Israel.
Shoshana may be contacted at:
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