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SUMMARY:A Day of Memory: A Holding Each Other Memorial for October 7
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 6\, 2025\n12-1:00 p.m. EDT\n \n\nNow more than ever\, we need each other.\n \nOur community meets every Monday for “Holding Each Other\,” a 15-minute online minyan\, but on October 6\, we’ll gather for a special hour of grieving\, praying and sharing.\n \n\nOur guest facilitator will be Rabbi Yehudit Werchow\, who will guide us through poetry\, prayers and prompts for creative expression\, reflection and sharing.\n \n\nThis event will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \n \n \n\n \n\nRabbi Yehudit Werchow was born in Argentina and raised in Israel. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A. in Religious Education from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York\, where she was later ordained at HUC-JIR in Jerusalem.\nYehudit has held senior leadership roles across global Jewish organizations. She served as Director of Israel Engagement for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) in North America\, as the Jewish Agency’s Senior Shlicha to the Reform Movement in both North America and the UK\, and as Director of Education for MASA. Throughout her career\, she has championed innovative approaches to Israel education\, strengthening connections across communities and generations.\n\n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/a-day-of-memory-a-holding-each-other-memorial-for-october-7/
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SUMMARY:The Torah in the Tarot
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 21\, 2025 \n12-1:30 p.m. EDT\n$18\n \n\nStep into a world where ancient Jewish wisdom hides in plain sight—painted into the mysterious images of Renaissance-era Tarot cards.\n \nAuthor Stav Appel invites you on a fascinating journey into his startling discovery: that the original Tarot de Marseille may have served as a covert tool for Jewish education during centuries when the Roman Catholic Church sought to erase Judaism from public life.\n \nThrough a Judaic lens\, even the 1650 Jean Noblet Tarot—one of the oldest surviving decks—reveals Hebrew letters\, Torah stories\, ritual objects\, and Jewish holy days woven into its imagery. These hidden connections challenge everything scholars and enthusiasts think they know about the history of Tarot. Join us as Stav shares insights from his forthcoming Ayin Press deck and booklet\, The Torah in the Tarot\, and decide for yourself: can the rituals and lore of Judaism truly be found within the cards?\n\n \nThis session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \n\nStav Appel is a data scientist and a lifelong student of Torah. Earlier in his career he was the director of the Israeli-Palestinian coexistence organization Nitzanei Shalom\, and the director of International Service Programs for American Jewish World Service. He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and has studied Biblical Hebrew at Hebrew University and Yale Divinity School. \nAfter a chance encounter with an old deck of Tarot cards\, Stav began to explore the origins and meaning of the biblical references he recognized in its images. He is now a frequent speaker and popular writer on the Torah in the Tarot\, the lost and forgotten Judaic origins of the mysterious Tarot de Marseille. He currently resides in New Salem\, NY. Find Stav on Instagram @torah.tarot. \n\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/the-torah-in-the-tarot/
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SUMMARY:Discovering Jewish Joy: A Ritualwell Community Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 29\, 2025\n8-9:30 p.m. EDT\n \n\n \nJoin the Ritualwell community for a special event celebrating Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage\, a new anthology filled with 32 moving essays that lift up the theme of Jewish joy.\n \nThis gathering is an invitation to connect—to Jewish culture\, to your own wellsprings of joy\, and to a supportive creative community. You’ll hear powerful excerpts from selected contributors connected to the Ritualwell community including Diane Gottlieb\, Tzivia Gover\, Lisa Grunberger\, Talya Jankovits and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer\, followed by a meaningful conversation about how joy can be a spiritual and cultural practice—especially in challenging times.\n \nThen\, you’ll be guided through a generative writing prompt designed to help you reflect on your personal experiences of joy\, and how they relate to your Jewish identity and story.\n \nCome to be inspired. Come to write. Come to feel joy.\n \n\nThis session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \n \n\nDiane Gottlieb is the editor of the anthologies Awakenings: Stories of Body and Consciousness and the upcoming Manna Songs. Her work appears in notable publications\, and she has received various awards\, including Tiferet Journal’s nonfiction contest.\n\n \n \n \n \nTzivia Gover\, author of Dreaming on the Page\, is a dreamwork professional and founder of 350 Dreamers\, focusing on global healing.\n\n \n \n \n \n \nLisa Grunberger\, a Pushcart nominee and Temple University professor\, has published award-winning poetry reflecting on her experiences as a daughter of Holocaust survivors and is adapting her book Yiddish Yoga into a musical.\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\nTalya Jankovits\, an award-winning writer\, released the poetry collection girl woman wife mother\, recognized in the 2024 Bookfest Awards. \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\nGabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer\, Ritualwell’s Director\, focuses on spirituality and disability in her writing and is working on a memoir about intuition and ancestral conversations. \n\n 
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