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We beg of you: Heed our call in the dry places.

A Sukkah Blessing in Honour of Islamic Heritage Month

A prayer for rain during the Amidah on Shemini Atzeret in memory of those fallen during the Yom Kippur War

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On Shemini Atzeret, Jews offer a special prayer for rain (it is the beginning of the rainy season in Israel). The traditional version of this prayer refers obliquely to each of the forefathers and their relationship to water; this version highlights the foremothers.

Geshem: Verses for Our Mothers

Women’s prayer for rain

Feminine Stanzas for the Prayer for Rain

The Reconstructionist Network

Learning to Say "We": Writing Identity

In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.

Four sessions, starting June 15th

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