Posts tagged ‘violence’

After Huwara: A Lament

Dozens of settlers in the West Bank rampaged through the village of Huwara Sunday evening as revenge against the terrorist murders of Hallel and Yagel Yaniv…

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For Parkland, Florida

Received by email this morning: Dear Mr. Solovy, I wanted to thank you for your prayer “For the Children of Newtown” that we found at reformjudaism.org.…

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For Manhattan, New York

After another day of horror, this one in New York City. Here is my “Liturgy after Terror Attacks.” May we never need prayers such as these…

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These Troubled Children

Here’s a prayer for our children, youths and teens who express their pain through various forms of self-violence. Here are several related prayers: “My Child’s Self-Inflicted…

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Another Boy Lost: A Jewish Yizkor for an Arab Son

This is prayer in memory of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the 16-year-old Arab boy burned to death at the hands of Jewish extremists. It’s part lament — that…

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