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

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

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

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

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

"When I heard the decree, I said nothing. / Who were the Hebrews to me, anyway?"