Preserve the memory of your loved one with a plaque on our Yahrzeit(Yiddish) The anniversary of a death, usually marked by the lighting of a 24-hour yahrzeit candle and the recitation of Kaddish, the memorial prayer. For U.S. Jews, the unveiling of the headstone usually takes place on or around the first yahrzeit. Wall. Learn More ->
As members of local and global Jewish communities, we bear responsibility for pursuing justice and equality for all the citizens of the world. We can all give tzedakahCharity. In Hebrew, the word tzedakah derives from the word for justice. Tzedakah is not seen as emanating from the kindness of one’s heart but, rather, as a communal obligation. and a little time, while some of us have the capacity to do much more. We make the world better when we fight for justice from a place of humility and love. These rituals and prayers infuse that work with a sense of holiness and perspective to help us do just that.
Chorus sings inspiring song on creating peace in the world
Beautiful melody for Mah Tovu
“Help us to see ourselves in all creation, / and all creation in ourselves, ourselves in one another.”
“We walk on cracked earth / forward on swollen feet…”
“What goes on in their heads? / How do they justify the cruelty?”
“Be with the children, their mothers, their fathers … who brave border crossings / because they have no choice…”
A prayer against the injustice of children taken from parents by U.S. immigration authorities
“We pray for strength as we cry out and organize and fight…”
Response to gun violence
MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech set to Haftarah trope
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