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“What is the path home? / Out from our buried place? / To Peace?”

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.

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

“We peer from the edge, these days of fear…”

“My heart / is cracked / into more pieces / than I thought possible…”

Verses to be sung to Leonard Cohen’s ‘Halleluyah’

“And I believe her, / as I march with her colors. / Next time she’ll march with mine…”

“And I wish / The fields of Israel’s kalaniot — red poppies — / Were all that were needed to generate peace”

“The ones who say Zionism is a dirty word, / The ones who choose death on your account, / They only see the ‘ism.'”

“Please one who receives, crack me open so all I do is open…”