Announcing the newest release from Bayit Games: Middot Meditations, an innovative approach to self-reflection using the language of Mussar, Jewish virtue-based ethics. Creator Steve Silbert writes: The Hashkveinu prayer asks […]
Authors Sally Wiener Grotta and Judith Sarah Schmidt discuss their parallel intellectual and spiritual journeys that became their newest books: Judith’s Blessing from Broken and Sally’s Daughters of Eve. Neither […]
Our Liturgical Arts Working Group has been co-creating a series of offerings arising out of the blessings of the Amidah. Sometimes known as The T’filah, the Amidah is at the […]
The third blessing of the Amidah speaks of kedusha, holiness. What does it mean to be holy, or to say that God is holy? What might angels, or our bodies, […]
These words from the Rev. Martin Luther King z”l (of blessed memory) can be used as an abbreviated Hashkivenu blessing for Kabbalat Shabbat on this MLK weekend or at any […]
When you think of Eve and Lilith, Sarah and Hagar, Rebekah, Esther, and the other women of the Hebrew Bible, who are they to you? For me, they are “flesh-and-blood […]
is delighted to announce Coming in 2024 Blessing from Broken explores Torah through the lenses of psychology, midrash, poetry, and dream. Author Judith Sarah Schmidt, approaching 90, harvests […]
Disbelief, fear, anger, grief, despair, love, anguish, longing, solidarity, alienation, hope: since October 7 we’ve felt all of these and more. This is our attempt to give voice to some […]
The kernel of the idea was: wouldn’t it be great to have a beautiful, meaningful, comprehensive and creative siddur for Shabbat — featuring all of the liturgy we know and […]
I am the mom of the spunky kids, The “extra” kids, The special kids, The misbehaving and noisy kids. They get to thrive And be a brightly burning flame Because […]