Listen: Vashti Said ‘No’ to the King
Honor Vashti’s courage while getting this Purim earworm stuck in your head.
Honor Vashti’s courage while getting this Purim earworm stuck in your head.
This stunning artwork and prose poem imagines what Vashti might have said to King Ahasuerus from the beyond the grave, a message with eerie resonance at a time when Jews are imperiled.
We’re told that God doesn’t appear in the Book of Esther. But what if the Shekhinah — the kabbalistic, feminine presence of the divine — is embodied in Esther herself?
Here’s a song and a prayer that’s both a call for justice and a desperate longing to bring the hostages home.
The blessing celebrates how a bimah ramp can eradicate a physical barrier to connecting more deeply with Torah and Jewish community.
This berakhah celebrates the autistic mind as something “wonderful and unique in the world.”
Rabbi Sandra Lawson’s new blessing offers thanks for the “strength, resilience and contributions of my people, Black people throughout history and today.”
This new blessing celebrates the diversity of minds, bodies and abilities present in human beings.
Rabbi Roni Handler chants the Ve’ahavta, while Rabbi Darby Leigh expresses one of Judaism’s central prayers in American Sign Language.