God is the Power the Leads to Salvation
“God is the love that holds us together…”
The Retelling
“The annual retelling is like the sharing of all hard stories, / never told the same way twice.”
The Fig: A Seder Plate Symbol of Peace
Rabbi Lisa S. Greene shares an addition to the seder plate for 2024/5784.
Blessing Upon Receiving a Bomb Threat
“Hashem yereicham, Source of Mercy and comfort, be with us now…”
What Should We Tell the Children? (Pesakh 5784)
This powerful new poem written for Passover 2024 uses the framework of the four children to explore the challenges in our world.
Parshat Shemini
“This is the first year I thought, how old were those children?”
Across the Narrow Straits
“Where is the waiting Nachshon,
Prince of the tribe of Judah / who jumps into the swirling sea…”
An Urgent Prayer for the Protection of Human Life
“May each life be treated
as a sacred treasure,
as You have intended.”
All Four (Are One)
Today the Four Children are a Zionist, a Palestinian solidarity activist, a peacenik, and one who doesn’t know what to even dream. The Zionist, what does she say? Two […]
Dressing the Seder Table
“All of the marriages, promises
all the lives and deaths behind us
all the way back to the Red Sea’s crossing…”
