This month we’re making some predictions. How will the Jewish community, and Jewish communal life, change in this year as we (hopefully) transition out of covid-isolation. And for our second segment we’re talking about the prayer for our country. As politics and violence rage around us, how do we pray for our country, and what does it mean to pray for our country?
Predictions
Jewish life in 2021: Predictions about the future of politics, culture and anti-Semitism by Shira Feder in JTA
Prayer for our country
Lady Liberty is Weeping: A Prayer for Our Country (on January 6th, 2021)
By Rabbi Stephanie Crawley in ritualwell
Prayer for a Government of Peace by Zackary Sholen Berger in ritualwell
Prayer for our country by Rabbi Ayelet Cohen in ritualwell
Prayer for the Royal Family of Queen Victoria in OpenSiddur
Prayer for the United States Government, by Dr. Ester R. Fuchs in OpenSiddur (2001)
Endorsements
Mimi endorses We’re an Orthodox Jew and evangelical Christian, and we saw the attack on the Capitol coming by Hannah Lebovitz and Beth Pikowski in the Forward, and @Hannah Lebovitz on Twitter, and Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown
Zahava endorses I resisted the call to include non-male voices every time I taught Torah. Then I tried it, by Avigail Halpern in JTA, and “Where are the Women?”: Uncovering the Lost Works of Female Renaissance Artists, by Sylvia Poggioli in NPR
Tamar endorses Antisemitism Cow Is Finally Ready to Talk by Molly Tolsky in alma
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