“A Prayer for Those Denied Abortion Care” was composed collectively by the staff of the National Council of Jewish Women and disseminated on Facebook in response to the regressive health care policies of the State of Texas in the United States in 2021.

Categories:

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Well-being, health, and caregiving

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Abortion in the United States, American Jewry of the United States, English vernacular prayer, United States v. Texas (2021)

Contributor(s):

Danya Ruttenberg and National Council of Jewish Women

A Prayer for Repro Shabbat (National Council of Jewish Women 2022)

“A Prayer for Repro Shabbat” was written collectively by the staff of the National Council of Jewish Women and disseminated on Twitter and Facebook 27 January 2022.

Categories:

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Well-being, health, and caregiving

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Abortion in the United States, American Jewry of the United States, English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

National Council of Jewish Women

Prayer on the Occasion of a Premature Birth, by Rabbi Elliot Kukla

“Blessing for a Premature Birth” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla and was first published in Where Healing Resides (CCAR 2013), p. 48.

Categories:

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., childbirth, English vernacular prayer, infants, Parents blessing children, prayers concerning children

Contributor(s):

Elliot Kukla

Things That Are Not To Be, a prayer-poem in the event of a pregnancy loss by Rabbi Hanna Yerushalmi (LGPC)

“Things that are not to be,” a prayer-poem by Rabbi Hanna Yerushalmi (LGPC) in the event of a pregnancy loss was first published in Mishkan R’fuah: Where Healing Resides (CCAR 2013), p. 49-50.

Categories:

Mourning, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, pregnancy loss

Contributor(s):

Hanna Yerushalmi

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