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Omer Day 15: Love of Compassion

"Colliding words of softness and strength..."

We Should Continue Practicing Brit Milah

Circumcision (but not brit milah) is the most widespread Jewish custom among the world’s Jews today.

I Lost a Child But Did Not Mourn Her

A personal account describing the author's experience of losing a baby before rituals were developed to encourage mourning

The Key: A Ritual for Perinatal Loss

Ritual to acknowledge grief related to infertility or perinatal loss

A Longing for Children

This essay on grieving the inability to bear children relates the author's dialogue with her deceased grandmother about whether she has the permission to mourn

Funeral Service for a Miscarriage: A Jewish Mourning Story

A funeral service for a miscarriage

Havdalah Ritual After a Miscarriage

This ceremony uses the occasion of havdalah, the service separating Shabbat from the week, to mourn a miscarriage

A Prayer to be Said upon Entering the Ninth Month of Pregnancy

From an Italian collection of 18th century prayers for married women written by Dr. Giuseppe Cohen and presented to his bride as a wedding gift

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

The Reconstructionist Network