Vera Broekhuysen

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        • Who lives? who dies? Who acts on your story? Rosh Hashanah I, 5781
        • “We carry our people in our bones” B’shallach 5780/2020
        • Sh’mita: The Year of Letting Go (2019)
        • “Our coming together tonight is an act of peace”: d’var for Peace Shabbat 2018
        • The Geir Without and Within: 1st day Rosh Hashanah, 5779 (2018)
        • Ki Hinei Kachomeir: desiring our yeitzer, for Kol Nidrei 5779 (2018)
        • Acharei Mot (April 2014)
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        • Daybreak on Route 2
        • Erev Yom Ha’atzma’ut
        • Old hag am I
        • Qaddish Yatom
        • Song of the Loom
        • To the lawmakers
        • Voyage of the Dawn Treader
        • What does grief look like?
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        • May 19th, 2018
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    • “Cantor seeks justice in Guatemala,” February 2020
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Poetry

The following are a selection of my poems from the past ten years.

Cardamom in my coffee

Daybreak on Route 2

Erev Yom Ha’atzma’ut

Old hag am I

Qaddish Yatom

Song of the Loom

To the Lawmakers (after mass shootings of May 2022)

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

What does grief look like?

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