June 10, 2022 — Consciousness of the fruitfulness of Earth was the major way of celebration in biblical times.

August 17, 2022 —

A reading for a baby naming on Hanukkah

November 3, 2024 —

To be inserted at the same point as one would add for Hanukkah or Purim

August 17, 2022 —

A ritual for receiving a new Hebrew name after gender transition

January 31, 2023 — "Jacob teaches, / We weave / And reweave, / The narratives / Of our lives"

September 12, 2025 — "They’ll find simkha / coiled like a spring, / waiting to burst / into something beautiful..." 

August 8, 2022 — What do we do when our Jewish practices are painful, when instead of anticipation and joy one is filled with hesitancy and dread?

August 17, 2022 —

A rabbi discusses her desire to incorporate the notion of covenant into her daughter's babynaming

December 6, 2015 — They kept telling me that once we got through the terrible summer, the “summer of yuck” as we called it, that I would find light, happiness and health. They tried to reassure me, as we checked each week of chemo off the calendar, that I was one step closer to relief, to a happy ending, to life after cancer. They promised – everyone promised – that I’d feel better, that I’d resume work and parenting and everything in between, and that I’d be able to put cancer far behind me and move on.