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by Menachem Creditor
In mourning and solidarity with the community of Newtown, Connecticut

Adonai,
Your children and teachers
are dead and wounded.

Our souls are burning with anguish.
Until When, Adonai?! (Ps.

Composed and translated by Simcha Roth and Michael Graetz for the Masorti Movement in Israel.

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by Menachem Creditor

Elohei ha-ruchot, God of the Winds,1

Fixated as we are by incalculable losses in our families, our neighbors, human beings spanning national borders, we are pummeled into...

by Naomi Levy, spiritual leader of Nashuva

We stand together in grief
For the innocent victims
Of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin
Who perished in their house of prayer.
May their memories be...

From RA President Gerry Skolnik

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The month of Av has come upon us in a manner true to historical form. Mishenikhnas Av, m'ma'atin b'simhah... When the month of Av begins, we are told, we are...

By Menachem Creditor

Dear God,

It is just too much. On the eighteenth anniversary of the attack that killed eighty-seven of our brothers and sisters in Buenos Aires, we have lost more of our family, this time in Bulgaria. Again. It...

By Ashira Konigsburg

“A Personal Message on an Important Theme.” These vague words written on the cover of a long forgotten pamphlet gave little hint as to the weight of the history found inside.

In 1942 as thousands of Jewish...

This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.

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By Mark Greenspan

Today we begin preparation for Passover.
On Shabbat Ha-Hodesh,
We remember how our ancestors,
Enslaved and oppressed in Egypt,
Who set aside a lamb and prepared for the night when
God would...

We are pleased to present this prayer in honor of Veteran's Day:

Ribbono Shel Olam!
Sovereign of the Universe!

We invoke your blessings upon the members of our American military forces, those brave men and...