The following are links to a selection of my writings that have been published elsewhere.
Prayers
Mourners Kaddish After a Mass Murder
Postponement Prayer – for postponing special events due to COVID-19 or other reasons
Illuminate the World: An Interpretive Sim Shalom – 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
Poetry
History of Loneliness – Parshat B’reishit
History of Languages – Parshat Nocah
Twenty-Five – in memory of Randall Katz
Rituals and Ceremonies
Ceremony for a Receiving a Bone Marrow Transplant
Ritual for Donating the Organs of Someone Who Has Died
Virtual Memory Circles: for those who cannot gather for a funeral or shiva
Shofar’s Cry: Sarah and Hagar Speak – Interpretive Torah drama for Rosh Hashanah
‘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
Dvrei Torah
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
We Are All Educators – Hillel International
Pluralism, Dissonance, and Jewish Identity Formation – Hillel International
Heroes, Golems, and Identity: A Purim Activity – PJ Library
