We joined together at the end of a week of so much grieving, loss, and shock for a two part service. Morning Service: Praise the rain, it brings more rain Our morning service was built around the theme of being in a time of building for the future as represented by the traditional liturgical switch … Continue reading Fringes October 2023: Morning Service & Mincha

We met on Shabbat Shuvah, the shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, for a teshuvah-themed Fringes service. Our liturgy explored this moment of taking stock, looking back and forward, and asking ourselves who we want to be and what the world needs from us. Download our September liturgy here. For torah study, we shared … Continue reading Fringes September 2023 – We return to ourselves

As a havurah we're not doing services on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur this year, but we are doing a Shabbat morning service for Shabbat Shuvuah - the shabbat between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This service will be Saturday, September 23rd at 10 am ET / 9 am CT / 7 am PT. We'll … Continue reading High Holiday Services with Fringes

We met together in person for the first time since March of 2020, for a full shabbaton. Being together was delightful, and yes, we sang every song that needs rounds or harmonies to be its full self. Our liturgy, always, in July, focused around the image of berries and ripeness and sweetness, can be found … Continue reading July 2023: we kneel on the earth and pledge allegiance to all of the soil in the world

We met for our usual June service theme of bees and honey and sweetness. Our liturgy in June is full of images of bees, flowers, fecundity, of Emily Dickinson and Antonio Machado. Given that the East Coast was strangled this week by smoke from Canadian wildfires, the escalating costs of the destruction of the natural … Continue reading June 2023: from my bitterness the bees were straining sweet honey

Join us for our first in-person Fringes service since March of 2020. Being online has let us welcome in new members from across the country, AND we're so happy to be able to have this special meeting in person in Philadelphia. There will be singing!! If you'd like to attend, please fill out this form. … Continue reading Fringes Shabbaton, July 14-15

We met on Saturday, May 13 for our shabbat morning service, in a stunningly beautiful time of the year here in the mid-Atlantic, and in the shadow of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. You can download our liturgy here. As has become our custom, our psalms alternated between the praising the beauty of the … Continue reading Fringes May 2023: Roots that hold fervently to this dark earth

Amazing news, Fringe Dwellers - I'm one of 36 Jewish poets accepted to the first-ever summer conference for Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry. I'll be spending 5 days studying, writing, and talking Jewish poetry with Jewish poets in Asheville, NC in late June. Faculty includes Rodger Kamenetz, Ilya Kaminsky, Jacqueline Osherow, and Alicia Ostriker. … Continue reading Send Elliott to Yetzirah!

Maggid: The Story We Tell Elliott batTzedek This is the story we tell, this year, in this community, about the story we tell: We were a small tribe, extended family, really, in a small part of a small land. Drought came. We followed the rumors of food and water, immigrated to where a family member … Continue reading Maggid: The Story We Tell