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Every Day a Little Death

"Death is my teacher"

Eternal Rest, Eternal Peace

"We do not disappear into nothingness"

Memorial Ritual for Regina Jonas

A memorial ritual to honor the first woman rabbi, Regina Jonas

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

Problematic ‘Yahrzeits’: Should We Sing the Melodies of Carlebach?

Honesty about the legacies of those who have caused unrepaired harm is the first step in tending to our communal responsibility to repair the world.

A Jewish Sanctification to Honor Trans Peoples’ Lives

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

Sacred Screaming

On the absence of ritual at the birth of daughters, with suggestions for new rituals for conception, pregnancy, and childbirth

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

Avodah Service for Yom Kippur

"God calls to us this day"

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