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Zikhron T’ruah: A Ritual for Reaching or Passing the Age of Someone Who Died

This ritual is an opportunity for someone to meaningfully mark a threshold when they reach or pass the age at which someone who was important in their life died.

Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament

A commemoration for 11 Heshvan or at the winter solstice of the unnamed daughter's sacrifice (Judges II)

Rising from the Ritual Bath

An article explaining the traditional uses of mikveh and modern perspectives on it, including a review of contemporary literature on the subject

Symbolic Foods

Sephardic traditions imbuing food with meaning

Omer Day 20: Into the Nile

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

Confessional to the Women We’ve Failed

"For all of our failures to protect you, our daughters, mothers, partners and friends"

Shelter For Our Tears

"Help our nighttime wakings / become sites of radical imagination and creativity..."

Dayeinu (It Would Have Been Enough)

A renditon of the traditional Passover song, Dayeinu, from the perspective of Jewish women

A Weaning Ceremony for Joshua Ruben and Eli Nathaniel and for Me

A beautiful weaning ceremony celebrated at Havdalah for twins and their mom

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

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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