Vera Broekhuysen

Cantor, Educator, Officiant

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  • Cantor Vera Broekhuysen
  • Recordings
    • Cantorial Settings and Recitatives
    • Congregational Music, Shabbat and Weekday
    • Cabaret
    • Jewish Folksong and Art Song
    • World Folksong
    • Videos
  • Lifecycle Officiating
    • Testimonials
  • Original Work
    • Original Music
    • Original Texts
      • D’vars (sermons)
        • Finding Power in Speech and Silence, Rosh HaShanah II, 2025 (5786)
        • Fear narrows our options; grief helps us choose life. Rosh HaShanah II, 5785 (2024)
        • Immersing, emerging and coming home: Yom Kippur 5783
        • Leaving loneliness, coming into community: Kol Nidre 5783
        • Welcome: Rosh HaShanah I 5783
        • Shabbat shabbaton and sh’mitah: rescuing life in a burning world, Rosh HaShanah 1, 5782
        • “Pause, don’t freeze,” Yom Kippur 5781 (2020)
        • 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)
      • Midrash
        • Scattered threads of light: a midrash for B’reishit
        • The Angel and the World’s Dominion
        • Cain and Abel
      • Poetry
        • Cardamom in my Coffee
        • Daybreak on Route 2
        • Erev Yom Ha’atzma’ut
        • Old hag am I
        • Qaddish Yatom
        • Song of the Loom
        • The Earth is Crying (Etude for Elul 5785)
        • To the lawmakers
        • Voyage of the Dawn Treader
        • What does grief look like?
  • Student resources
    • Shabbat at home, b’rakhot (blessings), z’mirot (songs) and Havdalah
    • Shabbat morning liturgy
    • Torah trope (Shabbat)
    • Haftarah trope
    • Keshet Te’amim recordings
      • Keshet Te’amim: Shabbat
      • Keshet Te’amim: Haftarah
      • Keshet Te’amim: High Holidays
    • High Holy Day Readings
      • High Holy Day Torah aliyot
      • Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Haftarah
      • Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Haftarah
      • Yom Kippur Haftarah
    • Reishith Binah (Hebrew Crash Course, NJOP, level 1)
    • Individual student pages
      • June 27th, 2026
      • June 13th, 2026
      • April 25th, 2026
      • February 28th, 2026
      • January 10th, 2026
      • December 13th, 2025
      • December 6th, 2025
      • July 12th, 2025
      • June 14th, 2025
      • May 31st, 2025
      • May 4th, 2024
      • April 6th, 2024
      • March 2nd, 2024
      • Temple Emanu-El Adult Trope Class, Winter/Spring 2018
        • May 19th, 2018
        • Trope class fall 2018
        • Trope class graduation, June 2nd 2018
      • May 7th, 2016
        • Yom Kippur Leyning
  • Social justice and immigrant advocacy
    • “Cantor seeks justice in Guatemala,” February 2020
    • Connecting the Passover Story to the Border Today
    • Kinot and Kintsugi
    • Sanctuary: a Jewish perspective
    • Sanctuary Network Press Release, Personal Remarks
    • Statement in support of Syrian refugees
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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

The Earth is Crying (Etude for Elul 5785)

To the Lawmakers (after mass shootings of May 2022)

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

What does grief look like?

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