Family and Friends

Shot by Joy-Photos in Family and Friends, favorite times in my family's life, but if I'm in them shot by others.  - Joy

Aviva & Brett

Aviva and Mom Joy, Renaissance Faire

velvet hats and ostrich feathers

Aviva, ballet dancer age 9

Darkroom developed, enlarged, printed, matted and hand-colored 

by © Joy Krauthammer  1986

Aviva is now a professional photographer.

When I began my MBA in fall 1986 I decided my BRAIN needed something calm, 

so I began DARKROOM work. By the time I received my MBA I was also a performing percussionis and ceramics teacher at an art school I opened for the City of Los Angeles.

Really needed to balance my brain!

Faye's birthday, Joy, Suzanne

Getty Villa, Malibu

Joy & Marcel, Aviva

Getty Museum

Aviva, Joy & Marcel Krauthammer

Aviva

Joy & Aviva

Joy & Faye

Thanksgiving 2017

Joy & Faye

Russ wedding 2010

Joy, Faye & Jim

Russ wedding 2010

Joy & Faye

Thanksgiving 2017

Joy and Marcel Krauthammer wedding

Joy and Aviva

Aviva, Joy and Marcel

Aviva, Joy and Marcel

Talleism by Joy and Ruth

based on Reb Zalman's Rainbow tallit

Joy

Joy and Aviva

Joy wearing Mom's necklace

Joy and Marcel

Joy, Faye, Arielle, Aunt Perle

Family Reunion, Maryland, June 2011

Joy's 60th birthday Simchat Chochmah 

Shoshi Tia JOY AriellaShira Judith

Under purple Jacaranda

Aviva, Brett, Joy

& friends

Suzanne, Karen & Brian, Yda & Irwin, Edith, Judy

Judy Guth

Chabad Upsherinsh 

© Joy Krauthammer  6.2016

Judy Guth

loving gift for my new grandchild

few months before Judy died

© Joy Krauthammer   9.8.2016

Edith and Joy

selfie © Joy Krauthammer  2015

Dear friend Edith

© Joy Krauthammer 

Edith and Joy

by Janelle

Edith and Joy

by Ann

Edith

© Joy Krauthammer 

Edith and Joy

PhotoBooth

selfie

 Joy Krauthammer reading Torah for first time in joy

guided by Rabbi Judith HaLevy

Miriam HaNeviah in Exodus Parshat B'Shalach 15:20

"Miriam the Prophetess, sister of Aaron, took her drum in her hand,

and all the women went forth after her with drums and with dances."

©  Shira Solomon

http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2011/07/reading-torah-day-35-malchut-sh-bhod.html

Joy Krauthammer, Aviva Krauthammer

Talleisim designed by Joy

based on Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's colors of Creation.

Tallits created by Ruth Zitch and Joy

Aviva, Joy

Bridal shower, Barbara's garden

© Aaron Kirsch

Aviva dancing at her Bridal shower

Hare Sorkin, Karen Reff, Karen Wurtzel, Joy Krauthammer-timbrel

© Aaron Kirsch

Aviva & Brett, Joy & Marcel

A&B chuppah

Aviva, Joy & Marcel

A&B chuppah

Aviva & Brett post chuppah

clearly a fave

First Grandchild

(named for her grandfather, z'l)

a shayna punim

love, gratitude, serenity, generations

Bubbie Joy, Grandbaby 6 months

© Brett

Four Generations

birthday girl, Aviva, Joy, Thea (Marcel's, z'l, mom)

Mishpucha celebrates the crowned one's 1st birthday

3 Maternal Generations

Bubbie Joy, Aviva, birthday girl

Aviva's Birthday & Brett and Maya

Aviva's FB cover photo

© Joy Krauthammer

Granddaughter 

2nd Chanukah

Lots of Books and Dreidles at Richard's home

© Joy Krauthammer

Bubbie Joy, Aviva, 2 Cutie Pies

August 2016

Bubbie Joy, Aviva, 2 Cutie Pies

 2017

Bubbie Joy, Aviva, 2 Cutie Pies

 2017

Cutie Pies

AvivaBell ©

Cutie Pie 2

Cutie Pie 2

by Aviva

Bubbie Joy and Cutie Pie 2

Photobooth by Aviva

Brett, Aviva, Bubbie Joy, 2 Cutie Pies

selfie

Aviva & Brett

Russ wedding 2010

Valley Friends

Northridge Ladies

met every birthday, every year 

since our children were little

until couple years ago.

Adina, Carol, Barbara,

Hare, Joy, Annette

2006? Graikos?

Northridge Ladies

Northridge Ladies

before Suzanne (from other side of Valley) joined the group

L>R

Adina, Sharona, Joy

Eva-Lyn, Hare, Carol, Annette, Barbara

(Visual Artists: Joy, Barbara, Eva-Lyn, Annette, Sharona)

L>R 

Joy, Adina, Carol, Annette, Barbara, Hare  5.25.2016

So sad that Suzanne, z"l, could not come and died weeks later.

I loved my dear friend very much, since 1968.

Woodranch, Northridge

Joy, Sharona, Hare, Barbara Adina

Valley Friends since Baby Mommy & Me, Pre-school and Kindergarten

MIA - Carol and Annette

11.2019 Graikos photo by Micah, edits by Joy

Joy, Barbara, Carol, Hare

Valley Friends since Baby Mommy & Me, Pre-school and Kindergarten

Skirball summer 2019

Joan S, Judith S, Joy K and Donna M

Lev Eisha  2019 by Tia

Rabbi Bill (William) Kramer marries Caroline & Dick Blatman

Joy introduced them! A fave

(Sadly, Dick died after Caroline died 11.30.1912 (16 Kislev 5773),   7.3.1915)

Married for 19 years.

I love them both. 

... and Caroline and Dick didn't postpone joy

I'm in the middle. 

(So sad to share that dear Caroline Epstein Blatman, z"l, passed over to the next world 

on the week of her 19th anniversary 2012. Without yet knowing the sorrowful news, 

I had washed my Caroline t-shirt that very morning. - Joy)

I understood at first the DON'T POSTPONE JOY as taking joy into life but now

I understand it as I was pushing them to meet each other when Dick's wife died, and

they realized they shouldn't postpone what I'm trying to do for them!

Caroline made me a beautiful purple (my fave color) afghan because she loved me. 

I introduced Caroline to her husband Dick, because I cared for both of them.

© Joy Krauthammer 

Reb Shlomo Carlebach, Joy Krauthammer, Shirley Perluss

Playing with Reb Shlomo was the highest.

© Lewis Weinger

Reb Shlomo Carlebach

6.22.1993

© Joy Krauthammer 

Reb Shlomo Carlebach and Joy Krauthammer

Finished Malavah Malkah concert

Beth Jacob

© Shira Solomon

Reb Shlomo's young chevre

Shlomo Katz, Dari Carlebach, Aviva Krauthammer, Yehuda Solomon

© Joy Krauthammer 

Ruth Fogelman learning timbrel from Joy 

in her Old City home.

© Joy Krauthammer

Joy Krauthammer, Rabbi Shlomo Katz, Eitan Katz, David Ozair

Happy Minyan

by Darlene Rose

Ruth Broyde-Sharon

Garden Mandala party for Ruth's birthday with HaMotzi

I love that this photo looks like a painting.

© Joy Krauthammer

Joy birthday

by Shira

More Joy

http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com

http://joy-revealed.blogspot.com

Shira Solomon,  Joy,  Eva Nathanson,  Carole Foley

Attending each other's simchas

Four Friends

Zena,  Shira,  Arlene,  Joy

I loved bringing similar gifts to my friends,

choosing what I think each would particularly enjoy

especially from my travels, and when we could wear them together. - Joy
These were fancy 'jeweled' scarves.

Celebrating with a few friends at Aviva & Brett's wedding

top row

Brett-groom,  Aviva-bride, Joy-mom  (wearing Uzbekistani wedding celebration garment)

Lilian Weissman, Carol Foley, Darlene Rose, Jeff Mann, Shira Solomon, Ed Orshan, Jeff A.

lower row

Michael & Marilyn Berger,  Rena Wander,  Zena David,  Arlene Shapiro,  Hesha Abrams

By 2018 so many friends died: Marilyn, Rena, Lilian, Jeff.

Joy Krauthammer and Mary (Peter, Paul & Mary)

African rhythm

Marc Weigensberg blows own hand-crafted shofar

© Joy Krauthammer 

Sounding of the Shofar. The shofar is mostly blown on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Lev. 23, Num. 29)

Hearing the shofar blast from Mount Sinai, the Israelites trembled in awe.  (Exodus 19:16)

Shofar photos: http://joysofjourney.blogspot.com/2012/09/creating-my-shofar.html

"Ah, so this is what it looks like to be taken by / toward the Divine!  And to think a photographer could capture it!"  
Blessings, Deena (Metzger)

Marion Klein

Retirement party (listening to Rabbi Miriam), June 2, 2013

© Joy Krauthammer

Joy and the Dardashi Family musicians

Chanukah 1985.

 Joy's first public performance. Inspired, Joy began drum lessons the following year

Galeet Dardashti is now famous as is her father Hazan Farid Dardashti

Joy Krauthammer drums the BLUES  1997

A favorite passion, and attended LA Music Academy, but short lived.

© Marcel Krauthammer

Faye
LACMA installation "Penetrable" 2013

© Joy Krauthammer

Cindy Paley

TRZ Women's pre-Pesach Seder

© Joy Krauthammer   3.12. 2015

Joy Krauthammer, Rivka Ben David

Heschel Day School

AriellaShira, Gather The Women

Candlelighting ritual, Wisdom and Water

International Women's Day

Indiginous Grandmother Mona Polacca

Parliament of World's Religion's, Honoring Water ~ Seeds of Peace

© Joy Krauthammer  3.8.2015 and percussionist

Sikhs performing Sewa, Serving Others

Parliament of World's Religion's, Honoring Water ~ Seeds of Peace

© Joy Krauthammer  3.8.2015

Sikhs performing Sewa, Serving Others

Parliament of World's Religion's, Honoring Water ~ Seeds of Peace

© Joy Krauthammer  3.8.2015

Rev. Stephen Longfellow Fiske, Peace Troubador

Parliament of World's Religion's, Honoring Water ~ Seeds of Peace

© Joy Krauthammer  3.8.2015

Hamid Mernissa, Sand Dunes

Sahara Desert, Morocco, June 1997

And his mother, Sarah, was Jewish.

© Joy Krauthammer

Mom and Baby

Beloved first granddaughter

© Joy Krauthammer  2012

Stephanie Smith

© Joy Krauthammer  1.17.2016

Usually I do not shoot portraits, but I love my friend's blue hair that used to be purple 

and now looks like my favorite beautiful peacock. 

Chassidic Pop Art Rabbi Yitzchok Moully and Joy Krauthammer

Visiting Chabad of Chatsworth

Breisheet 2.6.2016

Chassidic Pop Art Rabbi Yitzchok Moully and Joy Krauthammer

Visiting Chabad of Northridge

Breisheet 2.11.2011

Moully art opening

Chabad of N. Hollywood

© Joy Krauthammer 

Drum pal, Ian Kroop

Remo Drum Circle, day after Remo Belli died.

© Joy Krauthammer  4.26.2016

Charles Sherman

fine artist and shul feminist friend

© Joy Krauthammer 

Charles Sherman, Sherman Infinity Designs

fine artist and shul spiritual feminist friend

At Timbrels of Miriam conference 3.8.1992 at University of Judaism, I gave art show to 18 artists, 

including only one male on International Women's Day, and

Charles was the solo man!

selfie

Happy to join Joan Carl, at her "Retrospective" artist reception filling many gallery rooms. Joan's sculptures, paintings, and drawings represent her love for life. I'm blessed to have a Joanie original. When I met Joan over 3 decades ago she had been president of The LA Artists Association and I was Arts editor of the Jewish Calendar Magazine. So happy to see Joan celebrating in community of students and admirerers. Mazal Tov

May 22, 2016

Our 30th Wedding Anniversary 2004

Surprise party arranged by Aviva

Dear friends Luisa Latham, Arnold Bryman, Pepi Rosenbaum, Irwin & Yda Ziment, Reffs-Brian, Karen, Hana, Jesse, Lisa Weisbrod, Joyce & Sheldon Kirsch, Dov Geller, Shelly Magier, Barbara Klaristenfeld, Alan Levy & Suzanne Roth (others hidden)

Family Faye & Jim, and Marcel and I, Joy.

Banner by Ariel.

Our 30th Wedding Anniversary

Barbara, Suzanne, Yda, Irwin, Aviva with cake

© Joy Krauthammer 

Shira's birthday & Zena

 May 6, 2016 

"kabbalalistic energy time warp" - Zena

© Joy Krauthammer 

~  ~ ~

IN MEMORY OF BELOVED FRIEND SUZANNE, z"l

loving and loyal friend from September 1968 - July 3, 2016

joy we shared

tears, sadness, loss now

beautiful sweet caring memories remain in joy in our hearts

Aviva, Joy, Suzanne

Aviva's bridal shower at Barbara's.

Faye, Suzanne, Joy

 Faye's birthday

Santa Monica Carousel

Suzanne, Faye's birthday

Santa Monica Carousel

© Joy Krauthammer 

Suzanne, Joy and Faye's birthday, 

Getty Villa

Joy's movie birthday with Suzanne, Alan, Carol K, Betty

Suzanne, Alan, Joy

Metropolitan Museum

Suzanne, Faye's birthday, Santa Monica beach

© Joy Krauthammer 

Suzanne, Joy, Hare and Hare & Ellory's Sukkah party for Mara & hubby

by El

Suzanne, Joy, Hare 

at Hare & Ellory's Sukkah party for Mara

by El

Aviva's LA bridal shower

Joy, Aviva, Faye

Ariel, Suzanne, Jered

Suzanne, Alan, Joy's music bar birthday

Suzanne, Barbara, Joy

Skirball Museum

Suzanne, Joy, Judy Guth, Edith

Chanukah party for Aviva, Brett, Maya

Judy died Jan. 2017

Suzanne died 2016

Suzanne, Joy, Karen Reff

Joy's birthday, Aviva's bridal shower at Barbara's

Friends at party for Aviva & Brett & Maya

Brett, Yda, Aviva, Irwin, Brian Reff, Joy

Suzanne, Karen, Edith and Judy G invisible

Chinese Chanukah

Suzanne and Joy

Suzanne and Joy

Suzanne and Faye

Getty

© Joy Krauthammer 

Marcel, Jim, Jered, Aviva, Alan, Faye, Ariel, Suzanne on right.

Joy's dinner

© Joy Krauthammer 

Suzanne and Maya decorating Magic Wand

Last photos, last gathering  Dec. 25, 2015

© Joy Krauthammer 

Suzanne and Maya

decorating Magic Wand

Last photos, last gathering  Dec. 25, 2015

© Joy Krauthammer 

Aviva & Brett & Maya, Joy Krauthammer 

with friends

Irwin, Yda, Suzanne, Barbara, Karen, Sheila, Hare, Cindy

front table

Shelly R, Zena, Shira, Carol, Edith, Ann, Amy, Cindy... in rear

by Paulette

L>R

Friends- Barbara, Suzanne

Adina, Carol, Hare

© Joy Krauthammer 

L>R

Hare Sorkin, Adina Kraim, Barbara Klaristenfeld, Suzanne Roth, Joy K, Carol Kirzner

Suzanne Rotth & Alan Levy, Faye, Joy-sisters

Chinese concert and pastries, Getty

Suzanne, Alan and Maya, few days old  June 2012

We were couch surfing during blackout

© Joy Krauthammer 

Suzanne Roth

 Lake Balboa, San Fernando Valley, CA

springtime when Cherry trees bloomed

Miss my friend so much... grateful for friendship since Queens College 1968...

© Joy Krauthammer 

Suzanne and Ariel

our last visit in person 12. 25. 2015

Chanukah at Richard and David's home.

© Joy Krauthammer 

Family and Friends, Richard and David's home.

L>R Joy, Maya, Arielle L, David S, Richard W, Brett, Audrey, SUZANNE, Alan, Faye

by Aviva  12.25.2016

Last time we were together with Suzanne. Died 7.3.2016

Suzanne on her birthday

flowers from Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer 

Suzanne on her birthday

flowers from Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer 

/\ IMO 7.3.2016

With love to my friend Suzanne. 

You have been so important in my life and to my soul. 

I carry you in my heart.

love, Joy

Carol Kaufman, --, Betty, Shirley Lowy

Valley Beth Shalom and Lev Eisha friends

© Joy Krauthammer 

Shoshi Wilchfort, Jean Katz, Joy Krauthammer

Joy's Nature Photo Walk, Japanese Garden 2016

Sandy Magier birthday & Louis, Shelly

Lisa S & Jackie, Jered and Joy & Aviva

Devorah Cohen, Rina Daly, Joy Krauthammer

Joy Krauthammer, Donna Malamud

Lev Eisha 2017

Donna Malamud

Jewish Feminist Center, LA  1990?

© Joy Krauthammer 

Lisa Kassner, Joy Krauthammer

Lancaster poppy fields  2017 

by Paul

Joy's Kindred Spirits Band

Makom Ohr Shalom

by Mark Reden

Open to Wonder Band

Joy Krauthammer, Ian Kroop, Tia Cohen, R. K'vod Wieder, Phil Bell

AJU

by Chana Bell

Rabbi Judith HaLevy, Joy Krauthammer

Sarah's Tent

Rabbi Toba August, Cindy Paley, Joy Krauthammer

by Janis Cohen

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (z"l 1994), Joy Krauthammer

by Shira Solomon

AriellaShira Lewis and Joy Krauthammer

teaching Simchat Chochmah - Joy of Wisdom at LimmudLA

by AvivaBell

AriellaShira Lewis, Joy Krauthammer

interviewed in Malibu about Simchat Chochmah

Sharon Alexander, Joy Krauthammer

Lev Eisha retreat

by Shirley Lowy  2018

Zena's 70 birthday with Joy Krauthammer and Faye 

Thanksgiving 2017

Brucha At, z"l 2017  from Moshav, Joy Krauthammer

selfie

Devorah Miriiam Cohen birthday

© Joy Krauthammer

Dov Barry Geller 

Lake Balboa

© Joy Krauthammer

Mary Ellen Edwards and Joy Krauthammer

Devorah's birthday

Lillian Weissman, z"l, and Joy Krauthammer

by Ida Lewis

Rena Daly and Joy Krauthammer

AJU

Gloria Orenstein

Jean Katz, Julie Madorsky, Joy Krauthammer

Ahavat Torah retreat

Jean Katz and Joy Krauthammer

retreat

Barbara Klaristenfeld, Joy Krauthammer

Joy's birthday 2005

by Aviva on her bridal shower

Shira Solomon, Joy Krauthammer

by Zena

Annette Sabbah, Barbara Klaristenfeld, Joy Krauthammer

Annette's art

by Sandra S.

Judy Guth, Joy Krauthammer

Judy's plates one month before Judy died in 1.2017

by Nida

Judy Guth, Joy Krauthammer, selfie PhotoBooth

Lynn Beliak, Judy Sherman

Lev Eisha retreat

© Joy Krauthammer

Terry Adams

angel, the sweetest

died 2018

© Joy Krauthammer, Remo

Sherry Modell and Joy Krauthammer

the sweetest...

died  16 Mar Cheshvan, Oct. 25, 2018

Moshe Tov aka Musa Quayyes

from Berkeley and Tsfat

at his 70th birthday, Holy Land 2018

Ida Lewis and Joy Krauthammer

Kallah 1993

from HS to CA to Israel to NY, visiting again friends

Photo taken before Ida moved from Berkeley to Tsfat.

Shoshannah Shoshannah/Sarah bat Avraham, z"l (Chouake)  and Joy

Shoshana - Concert pianist and drummer 6.5.56 - 2.26 or 27.2018

Ha HaZeitim, Mount Olives, Jerusalem

Baruch Dayan HaEmet. SHOSHANA Sarah. Shoshana bat Avraham. My very first djembe teacher. She was my inspiration to play. I would watch her play with Reb Shlomo. Shoshana loved accompanying Reb Shlomo both on piano and djembe.

Shoshana's music was Divine. We used to dance together in her home (near Mahane Yehuda) in Jerusalem to her piano music, and she said she had never before done that, dance while listening to her own music tape which was not yet produced. We saw our dancing shadows on her wall with light streaming in. (I wrote a review in the Jewish Calendar Magazine and she loved it.)

"May the one who spent her life using her music to heal others now find eternal healing & wholeness beneath the wings of Everlasting Love."

Shoshannah Sarah "has passed away after a battle with Cancer. She was a deeply spiritual woman, an accomplished musician with several CDs available on ITunes, a Wellness and health expert, a raw food chef, and a beautiful person."

May Shoshana Sarah's neshama soar to Shmayim. May her memory be for a blessing. May she dance and play with angels.

Shoshannah Sarah and Joy

Kallah 1993

Shoshannah Shoshannah and Yoram Getzler, both z"l

© Joy Krauthammer 

Tobin Unger, Larry Skolnick, Sue Maturlo

dear college friends boating on Schuylkill River

© Joy Krauthammer,  3.1969  see photo back below