Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
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.
Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
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.
Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
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.
Writing Jewish, Writing Funny
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.
Advot End-of-Year Celebration and Poetry Reading

Celebrate our ADVOT community of Jewish writers as we share new work from our fourth anthology!
To Laugh: Using Humor to Survive Jewish History

Join Emmy-winning TV comedy writer Rob Kutner (The Daily Show, CONAN) and bestselling author (Marvel’s Look Out for the Little Guy) as he shares his new book, The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting —a comedic survey of all of Jewish history, plus jokes! Kutner will read from the book and offer and lead participants in exercises designed to harness humor to disarm a menacing world.
ADVOT@Ritualwell Open House

Join us for an open house to learn about ADVOT@Ritualwell, a creative home for poets, liturgists, ritual creators, songwriters, and other Jewish artists.
The Poetry of Your Ancestors

Prepare for the High Holy Days with poet Anna Goodman Herrick to investigate, conjure, and generate new poetry from our ancestral wisdom and Jewish sacred texts.
Writing Letters: Dispatches to the Divine

Join memoirist Ellen Blum Barish to prepare for a meaningful transition into the High Holy Days through the practice of letter writing.
Prescription to Feel: A Guided Conversation on Love, Loss, and the Power of Community to Sustain Us
Join Myra Sack and the Ritualwell community for a poignant conversation about both the personal journey of grief.