Alden Solovy is a liturgist, author, journalist and teacher. He’s written more than 600 pieces of new liturgy, offering a fresh new Jewish voice, challenging the boundaries between poetry, meditation, personal growth and prayer. His writing was transformed by multiple tragedies, marked in 2009 by the sudden death of his wife from catastrophic brain injury. Solovy’s teaching spans from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem to Limmud, UK, and synagogues throughout the U.S. The Jerusalem Post called his writing “soulful, meticulously crafted.” Huffington Post Religion said “…the prayers reflect age-old yearnings in modern-day situations.” Solovy is a three-time winner of the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. He made aliyah to Israel in 2012, where he hikes, writes, teaches, and learns. His work has appeared in Mishkan R'Fuah: Where Healing Resides (CCAR Press, 2012), L'chol Z'man v'Eit: For Sacred Moments (CCAR Press, 2015), Mishkan HaNefesh: Machzor for the Days of Awe (CCAR Press, 2015), and Gates of Shabbat, Revised Edition (CCAR Press, 2016). He is the author of This Grateful Heart: Psalms and Prayers for a New Day, published by CCAR Press in 2017.
Sessions in which Alden Solovy participates
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- Prayer in Fear, Tragedy, and Loss Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Mayflower 1 & 2 (LL)
- 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour
- When fear, tragedy or loss strikes, the urge to "pour out our hearts in prayer" can be blocked by the very emotions that yearn to be expressed. In ...
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- Awakening the Heart, Stimulating the Soul When You are Out There on Your Own Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Salon BC
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- For the solo or community rabbi who serves small or fiscally modest communities, it may feel at times as if one is out there working diligently ...
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- A Saxophone in the Enchanted Forest Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza - Salon FG
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Our siddur is rich with metaphor. Mah Tovah. Kedusah. L'cha Dodi. All ripe with imagery to elevate our sense of the divine. The prayerbook i...
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