Open Search form

Francine M. Gordon

Apply for a Blog

Mar 22, 2018, 5:41 AM

From the best Sunday of the year to the biggest Shabbat

On this first full day of Spring, 2018, I look out my window and get a snow globe view of the UWS of Manhattan. The most recent Nor'easter is shutting down yet another day on the East Coast. Luckily,...

Mar 14, 2018, 7:07 PM

A Poem for the Student Activists

Civil rights trump gun rights in a society that is just, The imbalance in the US is the reason that we must raise our voices, take to the streets, Walk out of school, ignore the tweets of a President beholden to the NRA. Walk...

Jan 2, 2018, 8:39 PM

Of Condolences, Compassion and Community

Like so many this morning, I am profoundly sad at the loss of 9 lives that I never knew yet I knew so well. Like so many this morning within the American Conservative Jewish community, those who were USYers,...

Dec 12, 2017, 12:12 AM

Of She, Sheldon and the Shamash – Reflections on Mom’s 11th Yartzeit

The news is coming fast and furious as the Kislev moon fades away, making room for the increasing light that the candles of our Hanukkah menorahs will bring. Ever since my mother Arlene Gordon, z"l, died on the day...

Nov 6, 2017, 9:26 PM

Of Texas, Terror and Tweets

It is grey this morning on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as the early November gloom mirrors the mood in America on yet another morning after. In Trumpist America, where violence and anger are legitimate modes of expression...

Nov 1, 2017, 6:24 AM

Of Halloween, Horror & History — Reflections from the Upper West Side

Let me start by making clear that Halloween was NOT a holiday celebrated in our home as I was raising my children. As a very communally involved Jewish parent raising children in suburban Cleveland in the wake of the...

Jul 26, 2017, 7:53 AM

Of 8, 18 and 118 — An Activist Reflects on Rosh Hodesh Av 5777

As dusk descends on the Upper West Side, I reflect upon this last remarkable week. Last Tuesday, I was with over 400 Jews singing Jewish music of all sorts at the North American Jewish Choral Festival in Kerhonkson, New...

Jul 10, 2017, 8:24 PM

Seven Years of Sacred Rights, Sacred Song – The Tale of An Activist’s Odyssey

Exactly seven years ago, newly separated from my husband of twenty-one years, I flew to Israel to begin life anew. Little did I know that the events of the final morning of my stay in our family home would...

Jul 4, 2017, 10:15 PM

Of Deals, Democracy and Declarations – A Zionist Reflects on the 4th of July

Today, July 4, 2017, 10 Tammuz 5777 on the Jewish calendar, is the 241st birthday of the USA. For me, these days also mark the seventh birthday of a modern Zionist spiritual/social/civil rights movement working to build a healthy modern...

Jun 27, 2017, 5:39 AM

Of the Western Wall and the Western Wind

On this 2nd day of Tammuz, 5777, as the liberal Zionist world is rocked by the Diaspora-dissing actions of the Israeli government, I am in bucolic Northampton, Massachusetts participating in a workshop in ensemble singing sponsored by the critically...

Load more

About Me

Francine M. Gordon is an artist/activist who maintains homes in New York, Cleveland and Jerusalem. Since November 2010, through The Sacred Rights, Sacred Song Project, she has produced nine Concerts of Concern in the US and Israel. 2016 promises to be an active year as Ms. Gordon campaigns against unjust and immoral civil behaviors in the name of “Jewish Law.” More information about The Sacred Rights, Sacred Song Project can be found at the website below.