Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life

Our world offers a dizzying array of options for constructing identity and making meaning. In this context, all Jews are Jews by choice. Whether choosing Judaism for the first time, or returning or affirming this path for yourself, the choice to live a Jewish life calls for ritual and communal celebration.

Latest Rituals

Waters of Change: Blessing over a Zoom Mikveh

Blessing for an online mikveh immersion

Persons legs sticking out of an old bathtub situated in a grassy forest clearing.

Handwashing Ritual for Online Conversion

A virtual conversion ritual with handwashing to evoke the mikveh

conversion, handwashing, mikveh, water

Person pouring water from a floral jug over a hand above a blue bowl.

Creation Stories

“The Divine breath / Enters the human shape”

Abstract art with a black circle at the center, surrounded by swirling white and beige lines on a dark background.

Theological Questions

“The fish are passing through sunlight and shadow”

Silhouette of a person standing in water at sunset with the sun setting behind them.

A Mikveh Ceremony for Increasing Commitment to Judaism

Person floating peacefully on their back in a swimming pool, with eyes closed and face partially submerged.

Everything Is But a Moment: A Meditation on Kohelet

meditation, megillah, mourning, welcoming

Person meditating with hands in prayer pose, eyes closed, in a dimly lit yoga class.

Mikveh Kavannah for Affirming Jewish identity

conversion, covenant, mikveh

a person with outstretched arms in the water

Dream of the Red Tent

feminism, gender, lesbian, LGBTQ, Miriam

A group of diverse people holding hands and smiling outdoors on a sunny day.

Blessing for Newcomers

Welcoming recent converts to Judaism

chosen family, conversion, interfaith, welcoming

Two older adults hugging warmly in a sunlit room, one smiling contentedly with eyes closed.

In Each Word a Generation

A meditation for those who do not read Hebrew but wish to learn Torah

the words of the shema