Topic Tags: immigration

“1935, the girls are packing / for America. / Their parents will not wait for things to get worse.”

“All that remains to me / of my family’s life in Ukraine… / are four silver kiddush cups…”

A prayer for our country.

“Because they left / We live.”

“I pray, but I didn’t used to call it praying”

“Let us transcend ourselves and be the arms / of Shekhinah“

“May we all know a complete healing to be truly free and whole”

We cry today until we too are parched and empty / We cry until despair and cynicism and immobilizing fear are washed away

Kindle our moral imagination / so that our souls might sense / that redemption is still possible.