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: 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
Hearing in Our Hearts: Hannah’s Prayer
Wide as the Water/Mi Chamocha – song co-written with Batya Minsky Diamond
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 and Ceremonies
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
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 (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
We Are All Educators – Hillel International
Pluralism, Dissonance, and Jewish Identity Formation – Hillel International
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