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A Grieving Ritual Following Miscarriage or Stillbirth

A ritual divided into three parts: Mourning the Loss, Choosing Life Again, and Communal Support and Blessings

Havdalah Ritual for a Failed Adoption

While happily the majority of adoptions work out as planned, some do not. This havdalah ceremony marks such a loss.

Dream of the Red Tent

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Moving On: Yizkor and Life Lessons from the Book of Ruth

Reflections on the transformation of mourning to affirmation

Queer Families, Queer Mourning

Building queer family is an act of resistance.

Sacred Screaming

On the absence of ritual at the birth of daughters, with suggestions for new rituals for conception, pregnancy, and childbirth

A Sea of Names: Healing our Imperfect Relationships through Mourner’s Kaddish

New boats come each week as the familiar ones start to leave. You connect, once a week, to the lost soul...

The Kolot Egalitarian Omer Calendar

Our foremothers' lives, and our lives, as sacred texts

A Longing for Children

This essay on grieving the inability to bear children relates the author's dialogue with her deceased grandmother about whether she has the permission to mourn

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Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

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