When the New Year Turns to Questions

“This is the year the answers can’t be simple, won’t come / quickly.”
Prayer for 5785: Hope is The Antidote to Despair

Hope is the antidote to despair. Hope is shedding tears of grief and pain and then getting on with the hard business of tikkun olam. Hope is the knowledge that […]
October 7th

This poem is dedicated to Eden Yerushalmi & Carmel Gat.
Prayer for the New Year, 5785: We Sit On the Chair Together

“In this new year, let us bring our potential to bear.”
Unetaneh Tokef: An Adaptation for One Year Later

This version of the ‘Unetaneh Tokef’ prayer refers to the atrocities that took place on Oct. 7.
Season of Our Joy

“I squeeze the etrog and smell it,
and my heart swells. / The mitzvah is to take the dare…”
Apple Peel Tachlikh

An alternative kind of Tachlikh, focusing on composting and transformation.
El Maleh Rachamim for Yamim Noraim 5785

“Hide them / beneath the cover of Your wings, forever, / And let their souls be bound up with ours…”
Minyan

“In an age when / searching for home / in a soup / makes sense.”
Signs of Life

Wear the star Near and far For me, for you For every Jew Not with shame But with pride Never forget To be on the right side […]