New from CLAL

9/11/02

A Ritual for Beginning to Remember

Compiled and narrated by the CLAL faculty and produced in partnership with the JBI (Jewish Braille Institute)

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The Program

I. Evoking the Moment (click below to listen to Part I)

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Introduction
Shofar/Siren call
Lamentations 1:1-4, 5:1-5 and broadcasts from the first days after 9/11/01 (CNN, BBC firehouse.com)
Cell phone conversations

II. Remembering (click below to listen to Part II)

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The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai
Select “Portraits of Grief” from The New York Times
David’s Lament (2 Samuel 1:19-25)
Stories of Heroism and Resolve from articles that appeared in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Newsday and The New York Times
Psalm of David (Psalm 23)
A meditation before saying Kaddish adapted from the words of S.Y. Agnon
Kaddish

III. Moving Forward (click below to listen to Part III)

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An excerpt from “Here is New York” by E.B. White, 1949
Piyut (medieval liturgical poem) by Abraham Hazan Gerondi
Tfilat Ha Derech (Traveler’s Prayer)

Participants

Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard, Ph.D., Rabbi Daniel Brenner, Shari Cohen, Ph.D., Michael Gottsegen, Ph.D., Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Rabbi Bradley Hirschfield, Aliza Kaplan, David Kraemer, Ph.D., Rabbi Irwin Kula, and Robert Rabinowitz, Ph.D.

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