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Still 24: Evelyn Tauben and Jason Bashaw paint the borders of the backward facing deer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253662184-YZV7LCR1ING7KM5ENAJO/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 26: Ariel Rosenblum painting the Hebrew text on a Gwoździec ceiling panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253686226-MPGCI6DMUCZJUI0TWFTF/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 28: Jason Loik and Evelyn Tauben painting the backward facing deer in front of the tracings for the south dome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253706899-PR97DFMKR17Q33ZFUHPJ/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 31: Jason Loik explains the direction of the brush strokes on flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253727501-BVH21H8LSPHUIKHP1104/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 35: Emily White and Krista Lima paint the interior of the lantern with gesso. 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frame crew lift the lantern onto a platform before hoisting it into place in the roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253859676-36T9NLQ1O91G4HMUWIWK/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 41: The crew placing a triangle section into place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253882208-4U493UZWS4OMDQ2Z2ER1/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 42: Rick Brown and Jason Loik install painted panels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253895624-WYARVJC43H8B6NW46JRI/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 43: The Gwoździec roof structure is hoisted into place using many chainfalls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1414253906594-9JZO5GW0H2N02N9X30Q6/image-asset.jpeg Photos Still 44: Jason Loik and Jacob Jensen celebrate the raising of the roof by placing an evergreen tree at the top. 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They worked shoulder to shoulder with an international crew of of master timber craftsmen, artisans, historians, and other experts specializing in traditional woodwork and polychrome painting to reconstruct the ornamented wooden ceiling and roof of a synagogue… Read More from the Oberlin News Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1446652382990-NC7S0KH01YYDTIEUQABK/site-masthead-logo%402x.jpg News 11.1.15 Now, a new documentary, “Raise the Roof,” takes viewers behind the scenes with the unlikely and inspiring story of how Rick and Laura Brown, a husband-wife team of artists and visionary educators from Boston, led an international team of more than 300 students, artisans and scholars to recreate this magnificent architectural gem, a little known but significant piece of Jewish history that had been nearly lost. Read More from myCentralJersey.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1457733041385-8V2K67LN9B8AUIF6LVS6/image-asset.jpeg News 10.29.15 Almost 10 years ago, the Vilna Shul hosted an exhibit, “Continuity: Traditions of Jewish Art and Architecture,” that featured handmade models of one of Poland’s historic 17th-century wooden synagogues. It was accompanied by a series of newly recreated half-scale panels of the intricately painted, richly colored ceiling of another wooden synagogue, from the early 18th century. Read More from the Beacon Hill Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1443906227108-6LKGXIHOCQ5Y7DM2YJ15/image-asset.jpeg News 10.1.15 The “Raise the Roof” project began in 2003 when a traditional carpenter who also teaches at New York University showed the Browns a photograph of one of these vanished wooden synagogues, asking whether they’d be interested in reproducing such an edifice full-scale. 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Read More from Biz Tucson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1443620234314-61SAHOCC4LNJEUH2BENZ/image-asset.png News 9.30.15 It’s been almost one year since Israeli president Reuven Rivlin delivered a stirring speech at the opening ceremonies of Warsaw’s glistening new POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. “It is not a museum of the Holocaust, it is a museum of life,” Rivlin proclaimed, echoing the mission of the museum that tells the 1,000-year history of how Jews lived in Poland, and not only how they died… Read More from The Times of Isreal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1443645464618-CHUSRLEJTI3VUCY8MF2V/image-asset.png News   9.29.15 The festival will also include the Arizona premiere of “Raise the Roof,” an 84-minute documentary that follows and honors the work of Rick and Laura Brown, a husband-and-wife architectural team from Boston whose mission was to restore the timber roof of the Gwoździec Synagogue in Warsaw… Read More from Green Valley News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1443557051476-NF9KXCEHOTCDG1KE4335/image-asset.png News 9.27.15 Out of the ashes…a synagogue is reborn in Poland. 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Read More from the Arizona Jewish Post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1437660251353-K52AYU0KJTJO6IQ3NGJB/image-asset.jpeg News 7.23.15 The creative and artistic contributions of the Jewish people, their history and cultural traditions are at the heart of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, now in its 35th year and opening July 23. Those themes are also at the heart of the SFJFF documentary “Raise the Roof… Read More from the San Francisco Examiner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1457733441009-4KRJ52TBI8EBPWMIGB1S/image-asset.png News 7.6.15 It takes courage and vision to set students to work creating a life-size version of the Sphinx’ missing nose or building a huge medieval trebuchet siege weapon to scale. Rick and Laura Brown, art teachers at Mass. College of Art, recreate ancient objects using period tools and materials. 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In the case of Boston-based artists and visionary educators Rick and Laura Brown, it's been about a decade… Read More from the Jewish Advocate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1457733327543-R85LTPNQV6JWXKWBEO7J/image-asset.png News 5.7.15 The historic film footage of a burning wooden synagogue in Poland is disturbing to watch but it conveys the loss that spurred a monumental effort to recover history. Read More from the Patriot Ledger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1457733382051-0NEEA4YCRLDSDT9SRAWK/image-asset.jpeg News 4.29.15 More than a decade ago, art professors Rick and Laura Brown posted a flyer advertising a new studio art class at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where they are longtime faculty members. The poster featured an old photograph of an unusual looking 18th-century Polish wooden building, and posed an intriguing invite: “Who wants to build this synagogue?” Read More from the Jewish Exponent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1429455452716-8R1PEQRB44CO6S92W6OD/image-asset.gif News 4.15.15 The piece de resistance of Warsaw’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a painstakingly-built replica of the ceiling of an 18th century wooden synagogue the Nazis destroyed in the town of Gwozdziec, now in southern Ukraine…Its reconstruction is the subject of Yari Wolinsky’s Raise the Roof, a heart-felt documentary that captures the spirit of the project. It’s not only about the arc of Jewish history in Poland, which is both illustrious and tragic, but about the intricacies of true craftmanship. 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It is a story of larger-than-life characters—one that starts with tragedy and ends in triumph,” said director Yari Wolinsky, of Trillium Studios. “It highlights the cautious optimism of a new generation and a growing dialogue between Jews and Poles about the past and the future, providing a unique and positive way to connect with Jewish history.” Read More from the Jewish Georgian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5272c9b1e4b0793e8f87d5a2/1460923457017-JNE5BSEBXWQS3UCK50C3/image-asset.jpeg News 3.25.15 Raise the Roof, is a documentary about the efforts of a Massachusetts couple to reconstruct the roof of an 18th-century wooden synagogue in Poland that was the inspiration for one of the most iconic synagogue designs in the United States. “Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by the pyramid structure” of the Gwozdziec Synagogue when he was designing Beth Sholom Congregation in Elkins Park, Antsis explains. 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