A reception will be held this Sunday at the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph to officially celebrate the installation of a sculpture on loan from a local congregation.

Enid Goldstein is a member of Temple B’nai Shalom and commissioned Lion of Judah in honor of her father. The piece, a life sized lion, was featured near the entrance of the temple in Benton Harbor for decades before the congregation sold its building with plans to relocate.

“ The Lion was there for about 50, over 50 years,” Goldstein said. “ I commissioned the Lion in early 1974, I think. He made his debut in June of 1974.”

Goldstein says Lion of Judah was made by artist John Kearney entirely out of car bumpers because her father worked with scrap metal and admired s

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