Jewish prayer

Ideas

Why I wrote a prayer to be said on the Shabbat before Election Day

Standard Jewish prayers for the government, writes a scholar of Judaism and technology, omit the essential players in any democracy: the people.

Ideas

A shooter terrorized my favorite grocery store in Boulder. This simple Jewish prayer for dew is helping me mourn.

I tried to pray, but the vastness of the grief caused by unmitigated gun violence is overwhelming. I had no idea where to start. Perhaps I could simply pray for a drop of dew.

Ideas

The Supreme Court’s repeal of synagogue restrictions won’t change anything for Orthodox congregations like mine

It’s not about how many people in our community we can fit into a service. It’s about how our people can fit service to the community into their lives.