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“I am the Jew / I am a shofar  Calling to the world.”
Person blowing a shofar outdoors, draped in a tallit, with sunlight and Hebrew letters in the background.
“We peer from the edge, these days of fear…”
a yellow circle with colored paint around it, inside of the circle are clouds
“My heart / is cracked / into more pieces / than I thought possible…”
a person walking towards trees, a leaf in the foreground
Verses to be sung to Leonard Cohen’s ‘Halleluyah’
a group of people standing in shadow, holding hands
“And I believe her, / as I march with her colors. / Next time she’ll march with mine…”
The author and her friend march together
“And I wish / The fields of Israel’s kalaniot — red poppies — / Were all that were needed to generate peace”
a field of red poppies
“The ones who say Zionism is a dirty word, / The ones who choose death on your account, / They only see the ‘ism.'”
View of the negev desert with a small tree
“Please one who receives, crack me open so all I do is open…”
a person stands on a beach with arms open wide
“May the Holy Oneness hold us in the Light / so we may gaze upon the Sacred in each other’s eyes.”
a bird flies acriss a sky of clouds, some light and some dark
“May I be humbled to not to feel as though I have any true power to create meaningful, lasting change from my squares of influence…”
a woman sits on the grass looking at her phone

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