Type: Poem

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What Should We Tell the Children? (Pesakh 5784)

This powerful new poem written for Passover 2024 uses the framework of the four children to explore the challenges in our world.
  • by Rabbi Isaac Saposnik
passover, peace
children sitting at a Passover table

Across the Narrow Straits

“Where is the waiting Nachshon, Prince of the tribe of Judah / who jumps into the swirling sea…”
  • by Lucinda Kurtz
Miriam, Moses, passover
the waters parting

All Four (Are One)

Israel, passover, peace, war
closeup of matzah

Dressing the Seder Table

“All of the marriages, promises all the lives and deaths behind us all the way back to the Red Sea’s crossing…”
  • by Beth Kanell
family, Miriam, passover, seder
A drawing of Miram dances with a timbrel, set against a oink backdrop.

Don’t Name What You’re Painting

  • by Cathleen Cohen
Israel, peace, spring, war
a water color of hydrangeas and fruit

That Intrepid Little Frog

“That frog, / that inconsequential, modest frog, / held our fate in its webbed feet…”
  • by Brasha Smith
exodus, passover
a small green frog sits on a lily pad

Kaddish: Love Language

“Now, your breath is within me. / And Kaddish is like a love letter.” 
  • by Amy Pollack
grief, kaddish
a collage with the words of the Kaddish and pastel watercolors

I Want

“I want to be carried into a deep, deep salty sea of sound, rhythm, in tune with oceanic harmonies…”
  • by Rabbi Tsurah August
Gaza, Israel, peace, social justice, Ukraine, war
a collage of multicultual faces

Star Cousins

“Peace for my Muslim cousins / Is peace for my Jewish siblings…”
  • by Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff
Abraham, peace, Ramadan
the desert in Israel

Crossing the Red Sea

  • by Jacqueline Jules
passover, the Red Sea
the sea of Reeds

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Presence and Absence: Images of the Divine in Kabbalah

In this study of the Zohar, Rabbi Margie Jacobs will guide you in exploring the Shekhinah, the feminine, immanent, indwelling Sacred Presence, through the use of art materials and reflective writing. Four sessions starting May 7, 2024. 

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