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Shabbat, Chronic Illness, & Radical Rest

By Sophie Hulet February 15, 2024

“I have seen Jewish wisdom anchor chronically ill and disabled people amidst a society that is built, in many ways, to exclude us.”

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Home Will Not Wait For Us

By Aliyah Blattner December 19, 2023

“I once wept outside / a Domino’s in Jerusalem while the buses didn’t run, / parted ways with the child who grew up believing / that somewhere home was waiting for her.”

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Epilogues and Edges

By Relly Robinson November 10, 2023

“Even if we somehow managed to get every member back into that living room in Edinburgh, singing the same songs, it will never feel the same. We will no longer have those same strings of connection, varying in strength but never tenderness, weaving between us.”

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The Wisdom of Tohu V’vohu

By Mx. Mones October 18, 2023

“Formless and void, tohu v’vohu is the swirling celestial wilderness, before divinity started forming creation. It feels cosmically significant that we have been brought here, now.”

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illustration of a volcanic mountain, blue with yellow fiery splotches, and a small person atop the mountain, holding a sword with white sparks flying from it into a purple sky.

An Environmentalist Attempts a Prayer

By Lauren Elise Fisher September 29, 2023

“Let us dance, feel, celebrate the rarity of this fleeting life before we return to stardust in the cosmos / Let us usher our descendants in for a good time.”

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Young Queer Jews are Adding Their Voice to the Siddur

By Eden Rosenfeld September 14, 2023

“With this siddur addition, LGBTQ+ young adult Jews get to truly share their voices in religious life.”

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Choosing to Grieve

By Gila Axelrod July 28, 2023

“It felt so good to not have to pretend everything is fine. To be able to mourn, to bawl in the presence of community without apologizing for the snot and the sound.”

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Aseini K’Ilan: Make Me Like A Tree

By Max Halperin May 11, 2023

“The fact that every natural wonder, from the sight of a rainbow to the smell of a spice, is given a brachah – the fact we are commanded to notice the world for what it is and what it offers – is such an awesome thing.”

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The Pardes Ten

By Eli Hurwitz April 29, 2022

In 5815, ten unconnected Jews in disparate locations will have concurrent experiences of arriving at gan eden.

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When The Women Sang Shema

By Ellie Klibaner-Schiff January 27, 2022

One of the oldest Jewish prayers takes on a new unified meaning early in the morning, with Women Of The Wall

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The Medicine In My Jewish Self, The Torah In My Lakota Practice

By Samuel Elijah Rose April 21, 2021

“When you pray the Lakota way, do you feel like you’re praying to the same God?” 

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Psalm 114 – An Interpretive Translation

By Lavi Teitelbaum September 29, 2020

“The mountains, on the other hand, they weren’t afraid. They got up and did a little dance, like muscular rams hopping from rock to rock.”

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"Suspension" by Ali Zak

12 Tips for High Holidays Balance and Presence

By Raffi Levi September 23, 2020

In this excerpt from a collaborative High Holidays reader entitled “Our Still Small Voice”, Raffi Levi brings Jewish spiritual wisdom on enoughness and healing for readers looking to set an intention for the whirlwind Days of Awe.

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“Multitudes of Who I am”: Queer Jewish Songwriting with Syd Bakal

By New Voices Editorial Board August 28, 2020

In a day and age of DIY Judaism and Jewish innovation, Syd’s Queer Jewish music is modern revelation: a Jewish practice that draws from tradition and is refreshed with new melodies and media. New Voices has a conversation with Syd to talk about composition, spirituality, queer identity, and creativity in a time of quarantine.

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“Shema Yisrael” – Listen to Syrian Voices

By Hannah Weintraub January 4, 2017

When trying to make sense of the suffering and violence taking place in Aleppo and Syria at large, I have recently turned to Jewish prayers to provide me with the necessary structure to process the tragedy and aid those who are suffering. I grew up unable to conceptualize how prayer could be a source of…

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