Kaddish for the Tree of Life Synagogue
Standing here in Boston Common Happy kids’ voices trickling over from the playground The imam tells us not to fear each other The reverend tells us she will poke holes […]
Prayer for the Shabbat after Pittsburgh
The Torah calls upon us to rise and honor our elders. Instead, this week we sat shiva for our elders. Those to whom we look for wisdom on how to […]
Tree of Life
This acrostic piece spells out “Tree of Life Pittsburgh Tree of Life.” It is, of course, a response to the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue (October 27, 2018). […]
Ahavah Rabbah: Unending Love for Pittsburgh
“We are beautiful. / We are beloved. / We are worthy of life.”
Taharot in Pittsburgh
As the Jewish world mourns the murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, a group of private individuals are preparing themselves to perform taharot. Taharah (taharot, pl) is the ritual preparation […]
How to Pray While the World Burns
Go outside. Find a patch of grass, sand, dirt. Sit, kneel, place a hand or just A finger to the soft earth. Feel it pulse back. Open your palms and […]
Prayer for the Tree of Life Synagogue
Sure as we lay tefillin on bruised bodies, and walk cautiously down the halls of seminaries, and sure as we collectively hold our breaths as we drop off frightened children […]
Where God Is
There is no place that God is not Even in the barrel of a gun Bullets sing their own psalm A deadly hymn to the true judge The Creator of […]
Dream of the Red Tent
I want to write about tenderness a year of exhaling into presence finding myself and my tribe the lost tribe of Dinah of Miriam of Zipporah of Sarah wildly unabashed […]
Interpretive Sheva Brakhot
Created for the wedding of my daughter, Emily 1. Blessed is the fruit of the vine, that we may drink of it now to celebrate this union. May you both […]
