Type: Poem

“we must turn from death and war / and learn again the message of hope and love and peace.”

“She fights for her life, while I panic in my room, / thousands of miles away, in plain clothes…”

“I am afraid to wear a kippah, to put on my Star of David, / or to even look or seem a little Jewish…”

“We are living / as if in an experiment…”

“Who will bathe heated heads with cool clarity?”

“what will ensure / that this will never happen again?”

“the cry rises from every throat – may this never happen again!”

“Help our nighttime wakings / become sites of radical imagination and creativity…”

“Bring to our turn-table faith that we can turn the tide, / where children’s laughter sparkles in the clear blue air…”