Artwork plays an important part of Siddur Kol Hano’ar: Voice of Children. Artist Joani Rothenberg says she always wanted to illustrate a children's book. After moving to Indianapolis by way of Chicago, she started studying with Rabbi Sandy Sasso. "Sandy was teaching me about Jewish women in the Torah and in Midrash. I started to paint the women Sandy spoke of."

Rothenberg says her inspiration comes from Marc Chagall. "My husband and I lived in Israel for ten years," she says. "I spent a lot of time in Jerusalem copying the Chagall windows onto t-shirts and then selling them."

The art reflects inclusiveness. "I painted a large variety of people to have the kids be able to find resonance in the images." In a picture for the Amidah, many different ethnicities, as well as a number of different age groups of people, are represented. The Amidah prayer is a prayer that "speaks about many different generations; it is both a personal as well as a communal prayer. In that picture," Rothenberg says, "you can see a teenager doing some soul-searching alongside someone who is much older."

The artwork for the Aleinu is of a lamb and lion in a peaceful pose. Rothenberg says the picture puts forth the idea "that everyone in conflict can find peace - sometimes by bending the rules - from among each other." "Whenever I pray now, I think of the artwork from this siddur," Rothenberg said.

Note cards are available featuring eight of Joani Rothenberg's images from the siddur. The blank cards include envelopes and are $18 per set.