On Joseph and Solitary Confinement
When Joseph was jailed, wrongly accused of seducing his master’s wife, what did he feel? Did he remember his first stint in solitary, the pit where his brothers threw him […]
Mi Shebeirakh for People Held in Solitary Confinement
May the One who blessed our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah— Who was with our brother Joseph in the pit and in prison, and with […]
Jewish Disability Awareness & Inclusion Month (JDAIM) Lesson Plans (2019)
Jewish Disability Awareness & Inclusion Month (JDAIM) is a unified national initiative during the month of February that aims to raise disability awareness and foster inclusion in Jewish communities worldwide. […]
How to Bless Yourself
If you are waiting for a spiritual leader to tell you, write what you need to hear and read it back to yourself and call it blessing. Call the act […]
I Am the Future: A Poem for the Women’s March
We are the future and our lives matter We share our voices not only as Black youth, but as girls who will become women someday. We are the dreams of […]
Heschel King
On the yahrzeit/anniversary of passing of Abraham Joshua Heschel and birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. I The picture of Abraham Joshua Heschel rabbi, human being, interpreter of inner Judaism […]
Preparing for Psalm 27
May polar bears swim safely /
to the ice flows, and may we love /
our way back to soft tickling cheeks, /
hot breath, moist lips
A New Year for the Trees: A Tu Bi’Shevat Seder for Everyone
I founded Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth, the first national Jewish environmental organization in 1988, and have been thinking and writing about the relationship between ecology and religion ever […]
Bat Shekhinah
I created the Bat Shekhinah ritual when a friend from B’nai Or of Boston asked me to create a ritual for her daughter about to become a Bat Mitzvah. She […]
Loosening Our Hair: Queering Upshirin
may the strength that flowed through the untamed and flung off locks of our ancestors flow through your locks here today and whenever you feel the need to be loosened […]
