Yehoshua StarOctober 2003Sterling silver April 200614 karat yellow gold Variations I & II, 2005Sterling silver I had been wearing my grandfather's star for years prior to making the original sterling silver version of this star, but I decided that it would be a good idea to wear something that I had made (good advertising, right?) as well as something with my name instead of his. The simplest explanation of the symbol on the star is that it's an abbreviation of my

or giant trevally

Mars (Greek name: Ares)

whence the congregation derives its name

The large yellow blossoms are particularly interesting to me because they maintain a deep cup-like shape throughout the day—common enough in angel's trumpets

" Also in reference to Ruth

91 carat rectangular brilliant diamond that had been in the groom's family for a while

I never took the crumbling of the ring as an omen

helium and other elements is so large that it makes up over 99% of all mass in the Solar System

The great thing about the concept of 10

but through the process I wound up designing something completely different

The Star of David and hamsa are two of the most common motifs in Jewish art

so we used the chữ nôm characters for the numerals in their sons' birthdates to make up the shanks of the bracelets