Houston Jewish Artist Sees Deep Values in Hebrew Letters

HOUSTON CHRONICLE | ICONIA
By Menachem Wecker

Feminine Mystique. Debora Raichman. Stained glass mural,
Mikveh (ritual bath) Taharas Yisroel, Houston. Courtesy of the artist.

TEXAS---Growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Deborah Raichman was exposed to people of many nationalities and cultures, “who helped make the city an exciting metropolis,” says the Houston-based Jewish artist. Many Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees — including Raichman’s parents — came in the 1950s to Brazil, which Raichman describes as a country with a “strong Catholic majority” that is “mostly tolerant of its minorities.” The artist, who considers her work to be Jewish art, defines that genre as “an art that is imbued with Jewish tradition and values, with subject matter that is relevant to Jewish and Jewish life.” [link]