Ritualwell creates a vibrant community through online learning classes and events. All are welcomed into our supportive, safe learning space. You will join people from diverse Jewish backgrounds, eager to explore Jewish ritual, creativity, writing and spirituality.
There are multiple ways to learn with us:
- FREE standalone sessions with leading Jewish educators and writers;
- Ritualwell Immersions, 4- or 6-week online, in real time classes for deep engagement;
- ADVOT, a creative community of Jewish ritual innovators and writers who meet regularly to share and support each other’s work.
ADVOT is Ritualwell’s online community of Jewish writers, poets, liturgists and ritual creators. Enjoy multiple Ritualwell Immersions throughout the year. Access our weekly online writing space, hevruta pairings, online retreats, an anthology, & more!
Browse our many other Ritualwell programs below!
Event Calendar
Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: healing, Kaddish, minyan, Misheberech
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
Facilitator: Rob Kutner
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: comedy, Jewish humor, Writing
Join us for an engaging adventure with Emmy-winning TV writer and LMU film school professor Rob Kutner as we delve into how Jews have utilized humor to navigate their challenging history. Together, we will explore various "tricks of the trade" to spread joy to ourselves and others during these tough times.
Finding Shekhinah
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.
Deep Body Poetry
Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women
Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.
Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
Facilitator: Rob Kutner
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: comedy, Jewish humor, Writing
Join us for an engaging adventure with Emmy-winning TV writer and LMU film school professor Rob Kutner as we delve into how Jews have utilized humor to navigate their challenging history. Together, we will explore various "tricks of the trade" to spread joy to ourselves and others during these tough times.
Finding Shekhinah
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.
Deep Body Poetry
Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women
Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.
Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
Facilitator: Rob Kutner
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: comedy, Jewish humor, Writing
Join us for an engaging adventure with Emmy-winning TV writer and LMU film school professor Rob Kutner as we delve into how Jews have utilized humor to navigate their challenging history. Together, we will explore various "tricks of the trade" to spread joy to ourselves and others during these tough times.
Finding Shekhinah
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.
Deep Body Poetry
Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women
Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.
Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
Facilitator: Rob Kutner
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: comedy, Jewish humor, Writing
Join us for an engaging adventure with Emmy-winning TV writer and LMU film school professor Rob Kutner as we delve into how Jews have utilized humor to navigate their challenging history. Together, we will explore various "tricks of the trade" to spread joy to ourselves and others during these tough times.
Finding Shekhinah
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.
We seek to be a fully inclusive community.
People of all backgrounds, ages, genders, identities and levels of Jewish knowledge and creative practice are warmly welcome to our programs. We encourage writers who identify as BIJOC (Black Indigenous Jews of Color), Mizrahi/Sephardi, LGBTQ+, interfaith, low-income and disabled to join us.
Please note that this year we have increased our prices in order to increase the rate we pay our faculty. We continue to offer an array of free programming to be accessible to all. If you have financial need or any questions, please reach out to us at ritualwell@reconstructingjudaism.org.
All our programs take place online. All learning sessions are recorded and made available to registrants. For up-to-date announcements on our programming, please subscribe to our newsletter.
