Queer/Chosen Family Gender Neutral Blessing for the Children
Introduction Judaism has a beautiful tradition of blessing the children on Friday night before making kiddush. Parent(s) traditionally place their hands on the head(s) of their children as they bless […]
Chemotherapy Havdalah
Ani Ma’amin
Inspired by the thirteen-point version of the Jewish principles of faith. I have written this to be recited at the ending of my morning prayers, but it could easily be […]
Fault Lines: For The Ones Who Need Healing
Cracks form as we survive grief They start with sharp broken edges Eventually dulled when worn by time The crevasses remain but they narrow And rather than fall into them […]
A Selichah for Ourselves and Our Country on Yom Kippur
Ein Od: There is No Other
Ein Od (“There is No Other”) from the album Open My Heart, by Yosef Goldman (Rising Song Records 2019) Music composed by Yosef Goldman Lyrics: Aleinu Prayer, Deuteronomy 4:35–38, Zechariah […]
We Are the Tree of Life
Together we stand strong like a tree deeply rooted in the foundation of love We are the branches that spread out in many directions reaching for a common place We […]
Four Leaves on the Tree of Life
Bringer of stretchers, sounder of sirens, Warm us through our shock, hear us in silence. Straighten our spines, believe our grief, No matter how it knots. What is this, holder […]
Glint
Because aren’t we all /
swirling dust, flashing shards /
from a broken vessel of hope /
too vast be contained?
The Day After
First they came for the Muslims and I was not a Muslim. But I said, “Not on my watch!” Then they came for the undocumented, and my grandfathers were undocumented. […]
