Prayer for Tisha B’Av Actions
A prayer by Rabbi Mónica Gomery designed to be read preceding or following the sounding of the shofar at a collective protest on Tisha B’Av. The use of this resource has helped unify Tisha B’Av events across the country.
T’ruah’s Past Tisha B’Av Divrei Torah
Commentaries by Rabbis Edward C. Bernstein, Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein, Lizz Goldstein, Lev Meirowitz Nelson and Denise Handlarski.
Ruth: An Immigration Story
T’ruah’s text study, with a prayer for separated families by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld and the names of the six children who have died in immigration custody, to be read before Mourner’s Kaddish.
Senseless Hatred Destroys Sanctuary: Tisha B’Av to #AbolishICE
Program courtesy of T’ruah and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
Lamentations Chapter 6
Courtesy of HIAS
Prayer for the Safety of Immigrants and Refugees
By Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub
Laments: A Fresh Translation of Eikhah
By Rabbi David Seidenberg
“Bitterly She Weeps In the Night”: Voices of Exiles and Refugees, Past and Present
Source sheet by Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann
Amidah for Peace, Justice, and Immigration
By Rabbi Elliott Tepperman
Grieving Our Country: An Immigration Lament
Courtesy of Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Tisha B’Av: A Collective Observance
Program courtesy of Bnai Keshet of Montclair, NJ
A Prayer for Undocumented Families Torn Apart
By Tamar Fox, via Ritualwell
Other Resources
- Testimony from J, 5 year old, Honduras, with trope, by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen
- Alternative Eicha Megillah, compiled by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen from testimonies from migrant children by the National Center for Youth Law Center
- Lamentations Then and Now, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
- “I Used to Wonder, But Now I Know,” by Rabbi Rachel Bearman
- A New Lamentation for Tisha B’Av (and program-ready version), by Rabbi Aryeh Cohen
- “America is not better than this. But maybe it can be,” by Talia Kaplan
- “For These Things Do I Weep: Voices of Exiles and Refugees, Past and Present,” by Rabbi Jonathan Kilger
