Facilitator: Susan Comninos
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, creativity, folklore, Poetry
Use your family or community's sayings in poems that explore how the past informs the present. Come prepared to have fun, while trying your hand at techniques for folding both folklore and imagery into poetry that's at once individual and universal.
Facilitator: Adva Chattler and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: ADVOT, Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Poetry, Writing
Celebrate our ADVOT community of Jewish writers as we share new work from our fourth anthology!
Facilitator: Sarah Chandler and Rabbi Aya Baron
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: DIY, earth-based, Jewish spirituality, new year, Rosh Hashanah
Join Rabbi Aya Baron and Sarah Chandler for a creative exploration of Expanding the Field: A DIY Rosh Hashanah Companion, a zine-style guide to reimagining the New Year. Through ritual, reflection, and interactive practices, you’ll discover fresh ways to connect with tradition and shape your own Rosh Hashanah experience.
Facilitator: McKenzie Wren
Program Type: Event
Topic: Art, creativity, Jewish spirituality, Jewish women, matriarchs, Rosh Hashanah
Join us for a vibrant session where we reclaim and reimagine the women of the Hebrew Bible — not as distant figures, but as powerful voices that still speak to us today. Through guided writing or art-making, you’ll reflect on identity, faith, and resilience — and create something new of your own.
Facilitator: Zibby Owens
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, Jewish joy, On Being Jewish Now, reading, Zibby Owens
Join writer, podcaster, and publisher Zibby Owens in conversation with Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer as they explore what it means to be Jewish right now—how our questions, traditions, worries, and hopes shape our lives and connect us to one another. You’ll be invited into a guided generative writing session to reflect on your own relationship to Jewishness in this moment
Facilitator: Rabbi Jacob Staub and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Days of Awe, mindfulness, Poetry, prayer, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippuer
Start the new year with intention. Our new Ritualwell booklet offers poems, prayers, and creative prompts to guide you through the Days of Awe. Grounded in Judaism’s calls to Teshuvah, Tefillah, and Tzedakah, you’ll find meaningful, doable ways to renew yourself and help repair the world. Purchase includes access to a special meditation and reflection event with Rabbi Jacob Staub.
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer and Rabbi Yehudit Werchow
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: grief, Israel, Kaddish, memorial, Oct 7, October 7
Join us October 6 for a memorial remembering the victims of October 7, led with guest facilitator will be Rabbi Yehudit Werchow.
Facilitator: Stav Appel
Program Type: Event
Topic: Jewish history, Jewish spirituality, mysticism, Tarot, Torah
Discover how centuries-old Tarot cards may conceal the stories, symbols, and holy days of Judaism. Author Stav Appel reveals his groundbreaking research into the hidden connections between the Tarot de Marseille and Jewish tradition, drawn from his forthcoming book 'The Torah in the Tarot.'
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event
Topic: creative writing, creativity, essay writing, Jewish joy, Manna, Memoir
Celebrate the release of Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage with the Ritualwell community through an evening of storytelling, reflection, and creative writing centered on Jewish joy. This uplifting event features readings from the anthology, a rich conversation on joy as a spiritual practice, and a guided writing prompt to deepen personal connection.
Facilitator: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Program Type: Event
Topic: creative writing, Jewish Book Month, LGBTQ+ community, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Queer books, yiddish
Join us for an intimate, interactive online gathering with award-winning author Moriel Rothman-Zecher as we explore his bold, genre-bending novel 'Before All the World.' This is more than a reading—it’s a conversation about writing, identity, and the sacred work of storytelling. Bring your curiosity, your questions, and your writer’s heart.
Facilitator: Ellen Blum Barish
Program Type: Event
Topic: creative writing, ethical wills, legacy, preparing for death
Join memoirist Ellen Blum Barish for a warm, reflective writing workshop on creating an ethical will—a gift of the heart and spirit that preserves your stories, values, and wisdom. Through gentle prompts and guided reflection, you’ll begin shaping words that carry your love and legacy forward for those you cherish.
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, gratitude, grief, Jewish spirituality, Spiritual practice, Thanksgiving
As Thanksgiving approaches, many of us hold both gratitude and grief—love for what we have and longing for what’s been lost. In this special session, we’ll explore how Jewish tradition honors both emotions and how we can give voice to them through poetry, prayer, and ritual.
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