Tell me

“We are here together. We survived the rain together. / It was not a deluge and no trees fell…”Â
Frying a Soulful Latke

Listen to Karen Webber’s ‘Frying a Soulful Latke,’ a Hanukkah poem from her series ‘Enkindle.’
Innocence knows the Joy at Hanukkah

“As the candles descend / we are reminded / that nothing is /permanent / other than the Love of Hashem…”
Peace – Shalom

“Peace does not look like a dove / or a palm branch in the Old City…”Â
Shiva Handwashing for Estranged Relations

An important new ritual for this sensitive shiva experience.
A Prelude to the Aleinu – It Is Upon Us

This new text is a collective recitation of the commitments of the Reconstructionist Reparations Resolution.
In An Act of Teshuvah

“I raise my voice
In the song of prayer…”
A Prayer for School Shootings

“May the One who makes peace in the heavens / Bring peace to us, to our children, / To our communities,
And to this broken world.”
A Prayer of Thanks After Your Child’s B’nei Mitzvah When You’re Divorced

Our family, so shattered, so seemingly broken, was given new life today.
Family Portrait

”
The painting is for grandparents, miles away, / who long for them…”