April 4, 2024 — Abolition is more than the ending of legalized enslavement. It is a dismantling of institutionalized systems of oppression that enslave, imprison and devalue lives deemed expendable.

May 1, 2013 — I first suggested a ritual for how we might use Jewish symbols and traditions when faced with closing up the home of a deceased parent shortly after the death of my mother in April 2001.

August 12, 2024

August 17, 2022 —

A prayer for rain during the Amidah on Shemini Atzeret in memory of those fallen during the Yom Kippur War

August 17, 2022 —

A ceremony to remember transgender people who were killed because of structural oppression and sinat chinam, baseless hatred