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“Hold our loved ones close to your heart”

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Our neighborhood has lost dozens and dozens of community members and beloveds, to gun violence in just the last few years, and we are not alone

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Even though we may be wailing. We mustn’t stop working.

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The El Maley Rakhamim prayer reconstructed to honor the lives lost to racial violence

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Creative translation of prayer for the dead

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A ceremony to remember transgender people who were killed because of structural oppression and sinat chinam, baseless hatred

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A fresh translation of the El Maley Rakhamim to remember the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust

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Based on the model of creation, this seven-part ritual focuses our intention and then consecrates the final resting place for our loved ones

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Traditional memorial prayer in which God is asked to shelter the soul of the departed for eternal life

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Traditional memorial prayer in which God is asked to shelter the soul of the departed for eternal life

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