“Path to Freedom,” a 20×16-inch mixed media collage and acrylic concept by Saul Rosenstreich, coordinator of the shul’s Judaism and Art group, “takes elements from three photographs and rearranges portions of them to generate a new meaning,” the artist says. The figures of the family are from the 2012 Holocaust memorial in San Juan, PR, by Michael Berkowitz and Bonnie Srolovitz. The birds are from wall decorations in a nearby art museum in San Juan. These elements are arranged over a simple abstract design found on Pinterest. Additional painting with acrylics was used to coach the fragments into a coherent image. The work suggests that the arduous path to freedom — freedom to exist as Jews — is in fact, attainable.         

Photo by the artist