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“It brings me joy, it really brings me joy,” she said.

Shoham, who has spent time in the fashion world and in
graphic design, makes both originals and templates, wildly color-
ful across each and every one she produces. Her work is “tradition
meets contemporary,” in her words, and over the years she’s kept
her designs fresh by experimenting as much as she can.

Like Teutsch, she takes great pride in the relationships she de-
velops with the couples she works for.

Th e ketubah, she says, is “an heirloom, it’s something that they
cherish for many years.” At this point in her career, she’s some-
times contracted to make baby-naming designs for couples she
met before they were married.

“I’m part of people’s lives, part of people’s celebrations,” she said.

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Rachel Marks, a Philadelphia-area native now based in Mt.

Airy, was fi nding it terribly diffi cult to pick a ketubah when she
and her husband were married in 2009.

“I could really fi nd anything at the time that I really liked,” she recalled.

So what’s an art school graduate to do? She made her own ketu-
bah, and then continued to the same for others.

Marks has made a career of making her own meaning, in a way.

Describing she and her husband as “lapsed” Conservative Jews,
she said that one of the main drivers behind her desire to make
her own ketubah was to fi nd something specifi cally meaningful to
them; now, she does the same for the couples that she works with.

Th e name of her store, Tallulah Ketubah, is a reference to both
the Irish name “Tallulah” and the Native American word pro-
nounced in the same way, meaning “leaping water.” Th e name,
Marks said, signals that her store is not just for traditionally
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religious Jews, but for same-gender and
intermarried couples as well. She enjoys the
artistic challenge of joining diff erent languages
and cultural traditions.

Aft er moving back to Philadelphia from
Baltimore in 2013, Marks had her fi rst
daughter, and decided that while she was
home, she’d begin to create ketubot, both
individualized for couples and as templates.

“It’s been great,” she said. “I feel like it has
enabled me to continue painting, to actually
be a paid working artist, which is every artist’s
goal. And the custom work especially is very
collaborative, and so I get to know the couples
that I’m working with.”
And like Shoham and Teutsch, she’s
beginning to see the ensuing life-cycle events
that come aft er marriage for the couples she’s
worked with, and she treasures her role in that.

“It’s so nice to see that I had some small
part in the beginning of their married life
together,” she said. ❤
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