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 5785Â

“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 […]
Belonging

“My path is not a straight line / but rather an ever evolving circle…”
A Prayer in this Time of Crisis

​Rabbi Maurice Harris, Associate Director for Thriving Communities and Israel Affairs Specialist, shares a powerful message for this moment.
Above and Below

“What is the path home? / Out from our buried place? / To Peace?”
On the Anniversary of Oct. 7: Words of Prayer

A prayer from Rabbi Deborah Waxman, President and CEO, Reconstructing Judaism, to mark the first anniversary of the atrocities that took place on October 7.
A Shofar Cry to the World, October 7, 2024, One Year Later

“I am the Jew / I am a shofarÂ
Calling to the world.”