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

Taking Up the Staff of Our Ancestors

Passing down our ancestors’ staff from generation to generation

woman standing in the desert with her face toward the sky

A Prayer for Finding Your Tribe

“Our tribe contains tribes”

A Prayer for Finding Your Tribe

For Sharing Divine Gifts

A poem acknowledging we each have divine gifts.

For Sharing Divine Gifts

For Jews Who Can’t

A new interpretation of Psalm 119

silhouetted woman standing on sand dune

Traditional Mikveh Blessings

Traditional blessings for mikveh immersion

abortion, birthdays, cancer, conversion, mikveh, miscarriage, name change, rape, same-sex wedding, sex

Traditional Mikveh Blessings

Turn It and Turn It Again

A poem for those at a spiritual crossroads

Turn It and Turn It Again

Ger Toshav Certificate

Certificate affirming one’s identity as a ger toshav, fellow traveler with the Jewish people

two arms reaching for each other with fingertips touching

Shehekheyanu in ASL

Learn the shehekhyanu prayer in American Sign Language, along with the Debbie Friedman melody

Shehekheyanu in ASL

Shehekheyanu Prayer in ASL and Hebrew

Learn the shehekheyanu prayer in American Sign Language

Shehekheyanu Prayer in ASL and Hebrew

Tzitzit Tying Ritual

A ritual for tying tzitzit in a communal, reflective, and healing context

tallit, tzitzit

person wearing brown tallit silhouetted against the sunset