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Times Of Israel
Times Of Israel
19 Oct 2024


NextImg:Daily Briefing Oct. 19: Day 379 – Post-Oct. 7 women’s prayer book models resilience

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Today, we bring you a bonus episode of What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.

This week we speak with the editors of a new prayerbook — Az Nashir – We Will Sing Again: Women’s Prayers for Our Time of Need” —  written by women, for women, in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught on southern Israel.

The anthology was compiled and edited by Shira Lankin Sheps, Anne Gordon and Rachel Sharansky Danziger, and it was published by The Layers Press, an imprint of The SHVILLI Center.

The three editors join Borschel-Dan in The Times of Israel’s Jerusalem office this week and explain their impetus to tackle such an ambitious project and the decisions they made while putting it together, such as the inclusion of “visual prayer” — 30 colorful illustrations by female artists.

The editors of ‘Az Nashir – We Will Sing Again: Women’s Prayers for Our Time of Need,’ join Amanda Borschel-Dan in The Times of Israel’s Jerusalem office (from left to right): Shira Lankin Sheps, Rachel Sharansky Danziger, Amanda Borschel-Dan and Anne Gordon. (courtesy)

According to the editors, the Hebrew-English tome is a prayer book companion that emulates a long tradition of Jewish women writing prayers, supplications and liturgical poems in their own mother tongues.

So this week, we ask Shira Lankin Sheps, Anne Gordon and Rachel Sharansky Danziger what matters now.

Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple PodcastsSpotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves.