The following are links to a selection of my writings that have been published elsewhere.
Liturgy
Mourners Kaddish After a Mass Murder
Postponement Prayer – for postponing special events due to COVID-19 or other reasons
Illuminate the World – prayer for peace
Who Has Kept Us Alive: Prayer for Receiving the Covid-19 Vaccine
Held in the Brokenness: A Prayer for Forgiveness
Gather Us: An Interpretive Galuyot Prayer
Drawing Near: An Interpretive R’tzei
Heretics in Our Hearts: An Interpretive Birkat HaMinim Prayer
Hearing in Our Hearts: Hannah’s Prayer
The Voyage Home: A Prayer for Re-Entry after Rehab
Poetry
History of Loneliness – Parshat B’reishit
History of Languages – Parshat Nocah
Twenty-Five – in memory of Randall Katz
God’s Lament: A Letter to Daughter Zion – for Tisha b’Av
Rituals
Transgender Renaming Ceremony – Video and Complete Ritual Guide
Water: A Prayer/Mikveh Ritual for an IVF Miscarriage
Ceremony for a Receiving a Bone Marrow Transplant
Ritual for Donating the Organs of Someone Who Has Died
‘In the Torah, name changes signify moments of transformation.’ In the lives of transgender Jews, they are just as powerful – article in the Forward about transgender renaming rituals
Midrashim
Shofar’s Cry: Sarah and Hagar Speak – bibliodrama for Rosh Hashanah
Infertility Speaks: An Imagined Support Group for Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Hannah – bibliodrama
Dvrei Torah (more dvrei Torah on this blog!)
Empathy in Exodus – Parshat Shemot
We Will Do: Sinai and Creative Judaism – Shavuot
A Ritual for Light – Chanukah
Articles and Guest Blog Posts
Shelters – HuffPost – about Sukkot and Milton Marks Neuro-Oncology Family Camp
Engagement: Paths to Meaning through Jewish Conversation – eJewishPhilanthropy
Finding Light and Lightness – the story behind my mikveh ritual (and prayer) for caregivers
Heroes, Golems, and Identity: A Purim Activity – PJ Library
Anthologies
My writing has also been included in the following anthologies:
Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves – September 2022, ed. Kenden Alfond
All Who Can Protest – June 2022, ed. Rabbi Menachem Creditor
A Year of Torah – October 2021, ed. Rabbi Menachem Creditor
When We Turned Within: Reflections on Covid-19, vol. 2 – October 2020, ed. Rabbi Menachem Creditor and Sarah Tuttle-Singer