Creating Your Own Meaningful Tu B’Shvat Rituals

Facilitator: Wendy Horwitz

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic:

Zoom

Join the Rituawell community to reflect on your connections to this Jewish celebration of nature and discover new ideas to create your own meaningful Tu B’Shvat rituals.

Free

To Laugh: Using Humor to Survive Jewish History

Facilitator: Rob Kutner

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: comedy, humor, Jewish history, Writing

Zoom

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.

Free

Why is This Year’s Seder Different?

Facilitator: Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: Haggadah, Jewish texts, Passover, Passover 2025, Poetry, seder

Zoom

Ritualwell has created a  new collection of curated Passover resources: Why is this Seder Different? Questions, Readings & Conversation Starters for a Challenging Year. This printable PDF will be delivered electronically and is accessible online.

When you register, you will receive our new collection of curated Passover resources: 'Why is this Seder Different? Questions, Readings & Conversation Starters for a Challenging Year.'

MALACHIM, Renewed: A Community Art Project

Facilitator: Ritualwell

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: angel cards, Jewish spirituality, malachim

Zoom

Create art. Create ritual. Create community. 

Submit your visual art. Be part of the creation of the new MALACHIM (Jewish Angel Cards) Set, MALACHIM Messages of Blessing Cards: Ritualwell Community Edition. Join us on April 28 to find out more!

Free

Writing Postcards From the Heart

Facilitator: Lisa Grunberger

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic:

Zoom

Write your own postcards to a loved one, to your younger self, to an artist you love, or to even to G-d in this interactive writing workshop with Poet and Professor Lisa Grunberger. Discover how a postcard can spark the first lines of a novel, a song, or even heal a relationship. Writing from the emotional “place” of pain, love, curiosity, anger, or grief can create a bridge to heal.

Free

The Creative Fire of Folklore

Facilitator: Susan Comninos

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, creativity, folklore, Poetry

Zoom

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.

Free

Advot End-of-Year Celebration and Poetry Reading

Facilitator: Adva Chattler and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Program Type: ADVOT, Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Poetry, Writing

Zoom

Celebrate our ADVOT community of Jewish writers as we share new work from our fourth anthology!

Free

Expanding the Field: A DIY Rosh Hashanah Journey

Facilitator: Sarah Chandler and Rabbi Aya Baron

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: DIY, earth-based, Jewish spirituality, new year, Rosh Hashanah

Zoom

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.

Free

On Being Jewish Now: A Reading & Writing Experience

Facilitator: Zibby Owens

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, Jewish joy, On Being Jewish Now, reading, Zibby Owens

Zoom

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

Free

A Day of Memory: A Holding Each Other Memorial for October 7

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer and Rabbi Yehudit Werchow

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: grief, Israel, Kaddish, memorial, Oct 7, October 7

Zoom

Join us October 6 for a memorial remembering the victims of October 7, led with guest facilitator will be Rabbi Yehudit Werchow.

Free

Balancing Gratitude and Grief: A Pre-Thanksgiving Writing Ritual

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: creative writing, gratitude, grief, Jewish spirituality, Spiritual practice, Thanksgiving

Zoom

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.

Oneg Shabbat: A New Table Companion

Facilitator: Rabbi Sandy Sasson and Rabbi Jeffrey Schein

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: Jewish ritual, Jewish spirituality, Shabbat

Zoom

Find fresh ideas, creative insight, and new ways to bring Shabbat joyfully to your table and community with Rabbis Sandy Sasso and Jeffrey Schein, editors of a new Shabbat companion.

Free

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