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In advance of Pope Francis's Peace summit taking place this week, our colleague Burt Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at JTS and director of JTS's Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue has composed the...

By Julie Schonfeld
Originially posted in Huffington Post

There will be no flowers for them this Sunday, no handwritten cards on construction paper, no lunch, no love. Thousands of women and girls are enslaved in sex trafficking...

By Menachem Creditor, Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley, CA

Elohei Ha-ruhot, God of the Winds,

Yet again, we are pummeled by nature. Yet again, we call out to You.

Winds roared, waters surged, and now streets are yet again...

By Mark Greenspan, Oceanside Jewish Center, Oceanside, NY

God of winds and waves,
Creator of mountains and marshes:

In the presence of nature's force
We are fragile and weak;
And yet in Your presence
We can...

By Marc Soloway, Congregation Bonai Shalom, Boulder, CO

Out of the depths of the flood waters we cry out to you El Shaddai, to say “dai -- enough. It has been enough.”

Let the drowning earth dry out once again and show us the...

By Abby Jacobson, Emanuel Synagogue, Oklahoma City, OK

Lord our God, we stood before You just a week ago to receive the Ten Statements of Your Torah. We stood, as though with our ancestors, and listened to the Torah reader chant ...

by Mark Greenspan

We reach out to the people of America.
We pray for healing of body and soul
For all those who were injured
And for a city traumatized by terror.
We call out to them: You are not alone!

“May...

by Lilly Kaufman

We Will Run Again

You tried to destroy exhilaration.
The moment of exhausted joy,
muscles burning,
the end in sight,
a personal best,
a moment multiplied
by the achievement of many.
We will...

by Naomi Levy, spiritual leader of Nashuva, author of Hope Will Find You

God of peace, God of healing
God of the grief-stricken,
We call You, we invoke You
We pray to You:
Oh my God, we called out to You
as...

by Rick Sherwin

Our thoughts are with the friends and families of those whose lives were taken.
In light of this tragedy, we offer this prayer:

Embracing God,
While some ask where are You
that wanton...