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The Key: A Ritual for Perinatal Loss

Ritual to acknowledge grief related to infertility or perinatal loss
  • by Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin and Rabbi Janet Madden
grief, infertility, loss of a child
close up of white woman wearing white t-shirt with a few colorful horizontal stripes. she's wearing a necklace with a key hanging on it, and she's holding the key with two fingers. she has rings on her pointer and middle fingers.

First Hanukkah Without Mom

“For the first time / I will miss / The Hanukkah lights”
  • by Twilla Tiferet Welch
grief, mourning
nine candles lit against black background

Ceremony: For Sandy Hook, After 10 Years

“Teach us to spin apart the light in this dark.”
  • by Rabbi Annie Lewis
grief, mass shooting, Sandy Hook, Uvalde
person holding lit tea light candle near rows of other lit tea lights

Prayer for the World’s Turning: When a Revolutionary Soul Dies

“because you breathed / because you dreamed”
  • by Devon Spier and Rachel Stomel whose teaching is credited in the work
grief, social justice
coral colored stone with the word remember on it with line of stones in the background in various shades of coral and beige

Seed of Light

“We can’t see a seed of light / In the brightness of the day”
  • by Tiferet Welch
grief, kabbalah, love
closeup of crystal with lit tea light in background on paper with typed words

Prayer After the Death of a Difficult Person

“i am the rock that burst open”
  • by Devon Spier
grief, mourning
headstone with hebrew writing and stones on top

Adam v’Mayyim: The Prayer Becomes the Praying

“We are here / To find the cracks / At the edges of possibilities”
  • by Tiferet Welch
creation, grief, hope, yizkor
mountains sunrise fog clouds

Remembrance Brings Forth Life: A Kaddish for Peace

“We can envision this world and beyond as havens of peace”
  • by Marc Jacobs
grief, peace
landscape of pink-tinted mountains with person standing and sky above with one cloud on the right side

Mar Heshvan

“Whatever is being born / In the darkened seed / Of Mar Heshvan / Is welcomed”
  • by Tiferet Welch
grief
autumn forest with path between trees and waning light

Frail Hope

“Will my God turn on the light in this dark room?”
  • by Nick Pipitone
grief, hope
dandelion lying on pavement

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Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis