Topic Tags: peace

“Learn to live together as the family you have always been. Together, let us be a blessing.”

This version of the ‘Unetaneh Tokef’ prayer refers to the atrocities that took place on Oct. 7.

“Hide them / beneath the cover of Your wings, forever, / And let their souls be bound up with ours…”

​Rabbi Maurice Harris, Associate Director for Thriving Communities and Israel Affairs Specialist, shares a powerful message for this moment.

“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’