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Preparing for a Child
By Rabbi Jacob Staub, Ph.D.
March 12, 2014
The truth is that I didn’t lose control when I became a parent. I never had control. What I had was the illusion of control, the false conviction that my blessings were earned.
Dark Days
By Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D.
February 24, 2014
My mundane—but predictable—behaviors reflect something essential about all ritual acts. They contain the chaos and shine a light on what is meaningful or poignant within.
Innovative Liturgy Project
By Andrea Bardfeld
February 12, 2014
Building blessing muscle
By Ilana Lerman
February 4, 2014
It feels like a superpower: to know how to stop time, command presence with another being, and articulate the gift that says, “I see and love you. Keep going.”
A Prayerful Life
By Nancy Flam
January 28, 2014
One of the fundamental problems we post-Enlightenment, post-Holocaust, American Jews have with prayer is not theological in nature; it is that our attention is elsewhere.
Praying with My Feet?
By Julie Aronowitz
January 21, 2014
Do I believe that with God’s strength I can do all things? How powerful would that be?
Listening to the Ocean
By Rabbi Shefa Gold
January 14, 2014
Rabbi Shefa Gold discussed the work of sacred Jewish chant with Ritualwell executive editor, Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D. Here are highlights of their conversation:
A Jewish Vision Quest: TorahTrek Guides Track
By Rabbi James Greene
January 2, 2014
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A Cure for the Post-Thanksgivukkah Blues
By Linda Rich
December 18, 2013
This year’s rare confluence of two annual celebrations, one religious and one secular, garnered much attention and sparked a huge burst of creative energy. For those of us “living in two civilizations” Thanksgivukkah was the perfect storm of a holiday. But now that the last of the pumpkin sufganiyot are gone, the sweet potato latkes with cranberry sauce have all been eaten, and the menurkeys have been put away, the post-holiday blues are starting to set in.  
My Yearly Adventure in Magical Thinking
By Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D.
December 9, 2013
Ritualwell’s executive editor, Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, sat down to talk with rabbis Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Ph.D., and Sue Levi Elwell, Ph.D., editors of the newly published anthology Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of our Lives. The following is an edited version of the conversation.   DG-K: Tell me about the genesis of this project.  

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