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SUMMARY:Honoring Our Animal Companions
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 26\, 2026 \n1-2:30 p.m. ET\n$18\n \n\nOur animal companions bring joy\, connection\, and depth to our lives. For many of us\, these relationships are deeply meaningful—adding richness\, comfort\, and texture to our days.\n \nWhat rituals might help us honor these bonds and bring a sense of holiness to our relationships with the animals in our lives?\n \nJoin us for a special Ritual Lab gathering with Rabbi Linda Holtzman\, a spiritual leader who has been called upon to help create rituals for welcoming animals into our lives and mourning their loss. Together\, we’ll explore the wisdom we’ve gained from our animal companions\, as well as from the larger non-human world. You’ll leave with a collection of rituals you can bring into your own relationships—and inspiration for creating rituals of your own.\n \nThis gathering is part of Ritual Lab\, Ritualwell’s new monthly series celebrating innovation in contemporary Jewish ritual. Each session features visionary writers\, artists\, and spiritual leaders who are expanding Jewish ritual practice in creative\, meaningful\, and accessible ways.\n \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 \nRabbi Linda Holtzman (she\, they) is the organizer of Tikkun Olam Chavurah\, a community that pursues social justice. One of the first rabbis to publicly identify as lesbian/queer\, she served the LGTBQ synagogue\, Beth Ahava\, in Philadelphia. She is the founder of the Reconstructionist Hevra Kadisha\, also in Philadelphia. A leading social justice activist\, she currently serves on the Jewish Voice for Peace rabbinic counsel. She is also a founder of the New Sanctuary Movement\, which works to end injustices against immigrants regardless of their immigration status. Rabbi Linda is a devoted animal lover\, who currently shares her life with dog Oliver and cat Tommy.\n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/honoring-our-animal-companions/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Monthly program
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SUMMARY:The Ritual of Small Moments
DESCRIPTION: \n\nMonday\, November 9\, 2026\n12-1:00 p.m. EDT\n \n\nJoin writer\, musician\, and Torah teacher Rabbi Alicia Jo Rabins for an inspiring exploration of how ordinary moments can become sacred through mindful attention and Jewish ritual practice. Drawing from her new memoir\, When We’re Born We Forget Everything\, Alicia will share reflections on finding holiness in everyday life\, followed by a creative writing prompt inviting participants to notice and honor the sacred moments woven throughout their own lives.\n \nThis gathering is part of Ritual Lab\, Ritualwell’s new monthly series celebrating innovation in contemporary Jewish ritual. Each session features visionary writers\, artists\, and spiritual leaders who are expanding Jewish ritual practice in creative\, meaningful\, and accessible ways.\n\n \nThis event will be recorded and sent to participants following the event. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n\n \nAlicia Jo Rabins is a writer\, musician\, performer\, and Torah teacher. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous\,” and BookPage calls her writing “a balm against all the hurt places of humanity.” She is the author of five books including a spiritual memoir\, When We’re Born We Forget Everything (Schocken Books\, 2026)\, and the poetry collection\, Divinity School\, winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize\, As a singer-songwriter\, Rabins tours internationally with Girls in Trouble\, her indie-folk song cycle about Biblical women. She lives in Portland\, Oregon with her family.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/the-ritual-of-small-moments/
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SUMMARY:Take It or Leave It? Rethinking the Haftarah
DESCRIPTION:Monday January 25\, 2027\n12:00-1:30 p.m. ET\n \n\nFor generations\, the words of the prophets have been woven into Jewish worship through the haftarah—the reading that traditionally follows the Torah portion. But today\, many Jews encounter the prophets only through worship\, and many Jews don’t attend Shabbat morning services at all. Some liberal synagogues have even moved away from reading the haftarah altogether.\n \nJoin Rabbi Barbara Symons\, author of Prophetic Voices\, for a lively exploration of the history and meaning of the haftarah. We’ll consider why the prophets lost some of their primacy in contemporary Jewish life\, what it means that “haftarah” actually means “conclusion” rather than “prophets\,” and whether it is “kosher” to let other voices—poets\, writers\, artists\, and contemporary truth-tellers—fill that space.\n \n\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 \nRabbi Barbara Symons is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan and was ordained by Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 1994. She currently serves as the rabbi of both Temple Beth-El of City Island\, Bronx and the Reform Temple of Putnam Valley. Most recently\, she served as the rabbi of Temple David in Monroeville\, Pennsylvania just outside of Pittsburgh for 18 years and was named Rabbi Emerita. She loves to pray with and learn with people of all ages as well as actively work together to repair the world especially with partners from the interfaith and local civic community. She is thrilled to have even a small part in raising up prophetic voices through the many diverse voices included in her book Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah (CCAR Press). Barbara met her husband Rabbi Ron Symons during their first week in Jerusalem at Hebrew Union College and is daily and deeply proud of\, and inspired by\, him and their three children all of whom are not only committed Jews but learned\, creative Jewish professionals. \n\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/take-it-or-leave-it-rethinking-the-haftarah/
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