Category: Graduation

Communal Acts of Private Intimacy: A Review of Trisha Arlin’s Place Yourself

By Alden Solovy

January 7, 2019

Like the liturgists of old, Arlin’s work troubles us where we are too comfortable and comforts us when we are troubled

By Rabbi Kami Knapp

August 2, 2017

Ritual helps us pay attention. From the joy of a recovery to the grief of a funeral, ritual helps us inhabit the breadth of human experience.

By Kami Knapp

May 30, 2017

Is a ritual for saying goodbye to a sacred text appropriate for saying goodbye to people?

By Emily Goldberg

May 29, 2013

The tassel on my graduation hat that upgrades me to “graduate” status fails to display the very core of my education: the journey.

By Ariel Warmflash

June 7, 2012

I’m not good at transitions, but there is comfort in knowing that even when things are “new-ish,” I never really have to go through them alone.