Holocaust Tapestries with Ted Comet

Ted Comet, a 97-year old Jewish community leader will take us on a journey to view five unique tapestries woven by his late wife, Shoshana Comet, Holocaust survivor, psychotherapist and artist. Each tapestry is a testament to the power of the mind to turn trauma into creative and healing energy hosted by DOROT USA.org. Educators around the country have utilized DOROT’s Tapestry tour as a unique teaching tool.Experience the Tapestry tour for yourself and bring this unique experience to your communities.
After surviving the Holocaust, Shoshana Comet (1923-2012) wove five 6-foot high tapestries which served as a means to unshackle herself from her holocaust trauma. This freed her to train to become a psychotherapist, working with Holocaust survivors and their families who had been scarred by their experience.

THEODORE COMET

Ted Comet is Honorary Associate Executive Vice-President of JDC. He has been involved in Jewish communal affairs since the end of World War II when he served in France as a student volunteer in a JDC program to rehabilitate war orphans. His major career concerns have been meeting the needs of Israel and world Jewry.

In 1990 he joined JDC becoming its Associate Executive Vice President. It was a dramatic time as the downfall of Communism permitted entrée to Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. There were major undertakings to help Jews now free to leave, to rebuild local Jewish communities and to care for the large number of dependent elderly. It was also a period of dramatic rescue from Ethiopia and Sarajevo, and saving the financially ruined Argentine Jewry. He led many missions to the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, North Africa, India and Latin America.

Since 1997 he was Executive Vice President of the World Council of Jewish Communal Service, an international association of Jewish communal professionals, which through Quadrennial gatherings in Jerusalem, regional conferences and publications fostered networking and interchange to enhance the skills of professionals in dealing with the growing challenges facing Jewish communities. From 1968-1990, he was Assistant Director of the Council of Jewish Federations where he wore multiple hats:

From 1956-1968 he was National Director of the American Zionist Youth Foundation, the central sponsor of Israel programs for American Jewish youth. He was founder/chairman of the Israel Parade on 5th Avenue and produced Israel folk Dance Festivals at Carnegie Hall and the World’s Fair.

Long Active on behalf of Soviet Jewry, he served as volunteer coordinator of the Conference on Soviet Jewry and organized the first large scale public demonstration of solidarity. In 1972 he led the first mission of Federation leaders to the Soviet Union.

Deeply connected to the Holocaust, his late wife was a survivor, he represented JDC in its co-sponsorship at the Holocaust Museum in Washington of its first Conference on DP camps, where he delivered a paper on: “Life Reborn in the Displaced Persons Camps – an Untold Story of Courage.”

Ted is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of Yeshiva University. He has two children, a daughter in Boston with a degree in Social Work and a son in Jerusalem who is a Clinical Psychologist. He has six grandchildren, eleven great grand children, and one great grand child! A lifelong friend of Elie Wiesel, Ted is an eloquent speaker with an inspirational story about suffering, loss and healing that participants will never forget.

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