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“Rich, deep and sensitive and brings poetry of the spirit to the world of prayer and inner life.”
-- Rabbi Myriam Klotz, Director of Yoga and Embodied Practices, Institute for Jewish Spirituality, New York, NY“This book has been a blessing to my spirit. It should be shared with whomever God has told the author to bless with her Nuggets of Life.”
-- Evangelist Sherry L. Meeks, Memphis, TN“Pulling the Pieces into Prayer is a deeply moving collection of prayers and meditations. It is ideal for individual reflection but many of the pieces can be used as meditations during a regular Shabbat or weekday service. The collection is thought provoking and stimulating. I hope it will become widely known.”
-- Peter Knobel, Rabbi Emeritus, Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, Evanston, Illinois; Chair Central Conference of American Rabbis Commission that developed Mishkan T’filah – A Reform Siddur (prayer book) 2007.“I appreciate your efforts in finding language proper for our time. Your work highlights for me the profound difficulties of such a task.”
-- Herman Schaalman, Rabbi Emeritus, Emanuel Congregation, Chicago, Illinois“There is a long tradition of Jewish women writing prayers in Yiddish. Reading your prayers inspires me to write prayers and think more about them. They're comforting even if they're about anguish and confusion because, of course, I have the same feelings, so I feel less alone when I read yours. To relate prayers to journals is a really neat idea. For me to do this would be grounding.”
-- Jewish woman“The words ‘It helps to get into the habit of prayer…’ made me cry. These words get to the essence of what prayer is for me too.”
-- Episcopal woman
“Quite beautiful, moving, powerful, uplifting. Wow!”
-- Arthur Kurzweil, author of Kabbalah for Dummies“This small book portrays the author’s life and how prayer has entered into it, wrenchingly honest at times and at other times quite whimsically."
-- Dr. Kalman Kaplan, co-author of The Seven Habits of the Good Life: How the Biblical Virtues Free Us from the Seven Deadly Sins"Your collection of prayers is quite beautiful and makes much of the traditional liturgy come alive. I was particularly moved by the healing prayers and especially. I think the idea of shading part of the prayer to be said only when one is really feeling the emotion is very powerful."
-- Rabbi Irwin Kula, President, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, New York City; author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life“I read 10 pages of your book. It is one of the most important things I have ever read in my life. That is how it has affected me in 10 pages. It is so special that you put your feelings into words that are self explanatory and so real. I’m just hanging onto that book until I finish reading it.”
-- Jewish woman“My admiration is for folks who write down to preserve and share the meditations of their hearts. This includes Betsy Fuchs, the eloquent author of Betsy's Prayers. I differentiate their work from that of people whose writings found their way into siddurim (Jewish prayer books), like poets Katya Molodowsky and Adrienne Rich, but who, when they wrote, were thinking poetry, not liturgy.”
-- Jewish man
“It is beautiful and gutsy and honest and if I were God I would want to answer it. It is so obvious that it has emerged straight from the author’s heart, straight from her own prayerfulness.”
-- Sister Mary Sullivan, r.c. (religious of the cenacle)“This powerful new prayer is needed now more than ever. In many ways a Job-like utterance. Blaming the Almighty is a great tradition and transcending that, as the author beautifully suggests, is an even greater one.”
-- Unitarian Universalist man“It makes me feel connected to the present and the eternal all at once.”
-- Jewish woman“This poem is awesome. I especially liked your verses: ‘When I note that our government listens, though imperfectly and changes courses for the good, though slowly and helps and supports us sometimes which is better than nothing. I sigh and smile and yes, I sing patriotic songs.’ These lines spoke to my imperfect yet hopeful heart too.”
-- Christian woman
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As of September 2010, several presentations in the Chicago area of “Learning to Listen to Israeli and Palestinian Voices (and to Each Other)” are in the planning stages.
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