Estrangement Prayer
Dear God, Thank you for the many blessings in my life, all there to inspire, nurture, support, guide and lift me up from the deep, fractured roots of my biological […]
Al Het, 5780: Seeking Atonement for the Climate Crisis
You are One, the Web of Life, the Eternal, the Before and After, the Mystery and the Beyond and the Present and the Here and Now. You are Love. You […]
Climate Crisis Hoshanot with the Words of Greta Thunberg
Introduction The Torah and early rabbinic sources describe Sukkot as a great celebration of the earth’s bounty in the form of a massive harvest festival. The holiday we celebrate today […]
Prayer for our Kurdish Brothers and Sisters
Source of Life, Source of Peace, Protect and give strength to our Kurdish brothers and sisters Standing in the line of fire Running for their lives as the Turks attack […]
A Prayer for the LGBTQ+ Rights SCOTUS Hearing
On Erev Yom Kippur (Oct 8th, 2019), as Jews around the world prepare for the holiday, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing cases to determine if LGBTQ+ people are protected […]
All Our Grudges: An Alternative Kol Nidrei
All grudges, resentments, and vows of vengence and bitterness, All undying hatreds or annoyances that we may hold onto Or talk endlessly about, boring our friends, Or lose sleep obsessing […]
Unetaneh Tokef for 5780
On Rosh HaShanah it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed: Who will die from unclean water? Who will die from an assault weapon? Who will die because they […]
What Was I Even Thinking?
You want to leave in peace. /
I want to write your name with love.
Interpretive Eleh Ezkerah
ELEH EZKERAH is a medieval poem based on midrashim from the 5th and 6th centuries, which recounts the martyrdom of ten rabbis who were killed by the Romans following the […]
I Stand Here (Hineni): A Song for the Service Leader
I wrote this several years ago during my first professional assignment as a cantorial soloist, primarily to calm down my jittery nerves about the whole experience. It has since been […]
