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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230126T120000
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SUMMARY:Survival of the Word: Poetry for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
DESCRIPTION:Many of us have heard of Paul Celan and his haunting poem of the Holocaust\, “Death Fugue”: “Black milk of daybreak\, we drink you at night…” In preparation for International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, we’ll learn about some of Celan’s contemporaries: Nelly Sachs\, Bertolt Brecht\, Dan Paris\, Abba Kovner\, Primo Levi\, Ida Fink\, Abraham Sutzkever and many more\, who wrote about one of the darkest moments in history. We will explore a bit about these poets’ biographies\, how they survived the Holocaust\, where they settled\, the languages they wrote in\, and sample their powerful poetry. \nRachel Neve-Midbar is a poet and essayist. Her first full-length poetry collection\, Salaam of Birds\, was chosen by Dorothy Barresi for the Patricia Bibby First Book Prize and was published by Tebot Bach in January 2020. She is also the author of the 2014 chapbook\, What the Light Reveals. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. A current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California\, Rachel is also editor of Stained: An Anthology of Writing about Menstruation for the AuntFlo2020 Project. More at rachelnevemidbar.com. \n  \nThe session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \nWe are happy to offer this session for free. Please consider adding a donation to Ritualwell to help us continue to offer free programs like this one!
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/survival-of-the-word-poetry-for-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Standalone session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T133000
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SUMMARY:Wonder and Awe: Poetry as Play and Inquiry
DESCRIPTION:Poets are lovers of language play: riffing with lyricism and idiosyncratic phrases to describe a thought\, creating eccentric rhythms and sound patterns\, using different types of speech\, or blending references from sources as disparate as the Bible to pop culture. A poet’s writing practice is cultivated by a sense of the wonder often found in child’s play—trying out new possibilities with language and seeing how it can be shaped differently to share our individual experiences. In this session\, we will look at poets who engage with the creative fire and dance of language play as a tool to make serious inquiries about the world around us. We will read the work of Jewish poets Samuel Ace\, Rosebud Ben-Oni\, and Erika Meitner. We will experiment with writing our own short poems that involve play and thoughtfulness. \nLeslie Contreras Schwartz is a multi-genre writer\, a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, and was the 2019–2021 Houston Poet Laureate. She is the author of four collections of poetry\, including Black Dove / Paloma Negra (FlowerSong Press\, 2020)\, a finalist for the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for 2020 Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters; Fuego (St. Julian Press\, 2016); and Nightbloom & Cenote (SJP\, 2018)\, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize\, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Her poet laureate community projects include Writing and Mindfulness: Creative Writing Exercises\, a free e-book on mindfulness and writing\, and the poetry film IT’S A MASK IT’S A VIRUS IT’S A KNEE\, a collective\, communal poetry film composed of poems written by Houstonians about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently a faculty member at Alma College’s MFA low-residency program in creative writing. For more about her work\, visit lesliecschwartz.com. \nThe session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \nWe are happy to offer this session for free. Please consider adding a donation to Ritualwell to help us continue to offer free programs like this one!
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/wonder-and-awe-poetry-as-play-and-inquiry/
CATEGORIES:Free,Standalone session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221221T133000
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SUMMARY:Dreaming Against the Current: Exploring Spiritual Modalities
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we will explore some of Rabbi Haviva’s favorite spiritual companioning modalities\, including dreamwork\, nature soul work\, and inner child work. She will read excerpts from her new memoir\, Dreaming Against the Current: A Rabbi’s Soul Journey\, as examples of the modalities at work\, and participants will be given prompts to begin to do some of that work themselves. There will be time for sharing as well. Participants are encouraged to come prepared with a pencil and notebook for journaling as well as an image from a dream\, a significant childhood event you feel changed your life in some way\, and a favorite animal\, tree\, or any other aspect of nature. \nRabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David is the rabbinic founder of Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind\, Body\, and Soul\, the only mikveh in Israel open to all to immerse as they choose. Ordained as both a rabbi and an interfaith minister\, certified as a spiritual companion (with a specialty in dream work)\, and with a doctorate on mikveh from Bar Ilan University\, she offers mikveh guidance and spiritual companioning for individuals and couples\, as well as mikveh workshops and classes for groups. Rabbi Haviva is the author of three spiritual journey memoirs and a novel. Her most recent memoir\, Dreaming Against the Current: A Rabbi’s Soul Journey\, is about her journey into interspirituality and dreamwork. Her two previous spiritual journey memoirs are titled: Chanah’s Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender\, Commandment\, and the Women’s Rituals of Baking\, Bathing\, and Brightening\, and Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Towards Traditional Rabbinic Ordination\, a runner up for the National Jewish Book Council Awards. Hope Valley\, her debut novel\, is about the friendship between a Palestinian and a Jewish woman in Galilee\, where Haviva lives. She is also the mother of seven and lives with FSHD\, a form of muscular dystrophy\, which has been one of her greatest teachers. \nThe session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \nWe are happy to offer this session for free. Please consider adding a donation to Ritualwell to help us continue to offer free programs like this one!
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/dreaming-against-the-current-exploring-spiritual-modalities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Standalone session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221219T133000
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SUMMARY:Healing Through Writing: For Cancer Survivors and Those Facing Illness
DESCRIPTION:Cancer\, like other forms of serious illness\, is not simply a physical experience\, but also emotional and spiritual. In order to heal from a cancer experience\, we must address all three aspects. The physical healing is directed by our healthcare teams. There are many ways to heal emotionally and spiritually\, but we often find ourselves navigating this on our own. Luckily\, there are many ways we can enhance our healing. This session will focus on writing and ritual as a means of healing\, which has been studied as an effective way to heal from both physical and emotional trauma. Led by Melissa K. Rosen\, two-time cancer survivor\, a member of ADVOT’s first cohort\, and the Director of Training and Education at Sharsheret: The Jewish Breast and Ovarian Cancer Community. This program is open to all who have been impacted by illness. \nMelissa K. Rosen\, Sharsheret’s Director of Training and Education\, holds a master’s degree in Jewish Communal Service from Brandeis University and has been working in the non-profit sector for over 30 years. Her professional experience includes informal education and programming\, advocacy\, and community outreach. Melissa has facilitated unique and lasting connections among organizations in the diverse American Jewish community. Melissa oversees community education throughout the country\, training health care professionals\, Jewish professionals\, and Sharsheret’s volunteers. She also manages Sharsheret’s Community Partnerships. Herself a two-time cancer survivor\, Melissa has used writing as a healing technique. She is passionate about the Jewish community and cancer support and advocacy. \nThe session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \nWe are happy to offer this session for free. Please consider adding a donation to Ritualwell to help us continue to offer free programs like this one!
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/healing-through-writing-for-cancer-survivors-and-those-facing-illness/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Standalone session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221213T133000
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SUMMARY:This Little Light of Mine: 8 Mindful Rituals for Hanukkah
DESCRIPTION:During Hanukkah\, at the heart of winter\, we enact a ritual that teaches us to grow in our light. Starting with a single flickering flame\, the festival of lights concludes with a glorious fully lit menorah\, visible through the window\, shining from within and out to the world. How can we allow this ritual to transform us? Join Dr. Mira Neshama Weil for a session dedicated to shining our light within and without. Through reflecting on the meaning of the festival\, meditating\, and learning rituals for our menorah lighting each night\, we will prepare for Hanukkah with purpose and presence and make each day of lighting the menorah a truly meaningful\, transformative practice. The session comprises text study\, guided meditation\, ritual learning and time for questions and sharings. People of all backgrounds are welcome. \nDr. Mira Neshama Weil is a Paris-born scholar and teacher of Jewish spirituality and meditation. A post-doctoral fellow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Oxford University) working on contemporary Jewish spirituality\, a certified Jewish Experiential Educator (Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies/Yesod European Fellows)\, a Certified Mindfulness Instructor (Mindfulness Training Institute)\, a Certified Jewish Mindfulness Teacher (Institute for Jewish Spirituality)\, and a Certified Vinyasa-Ashtanga Yoga teacher (RYT 200h at Sira Yoga)\, she teaches Torah and Jewish meditation internationally for institutions such as Or HaLev\, Applied Jewish Spirituality\, the Romemu Yeshiva\, IJS\, Moishe House\, and more. She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband Matan and their dog Nissim\, and when she’s not busy learning or teaching about Jewish spirituality\, she works on growing her illustration portfolio and her guitar and Hebrew chanting\, while experimenting to bake the perfect challah. \nThe session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \nWe are happy to offer this session for free. Please consider adding a donation to Ritualwell to help us continue to offer free programs like this one!
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/this-little-light-of-mine-8-mindful-rituals-for-hanukkah/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Standalone session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260526T215024
CREATED:20220817T220144Z
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SUMMARY:Filling the Well: A Monthly Embodied Creativity Salon
DESCRIPTION:In this FREE monthly drop-in salon\, we will use embodied practices\, including breathing\, sound meditation\, and movement to quiet the inner critic\, calm the nervous system\, and open the creative channel. From that place we will explore generative prompts designed to free your creative expression. You will leave the space more deeply connected to your authentic creative voice and ready to put it to use.\n \nElana Bell is a poet\, sound practitioner\, and creative guide. She facilitates artistic rituals and processes that support individuals and groups in accessing their authentic voice and alchemizing raw experience and emotion into artistic expression. Elana is the author of Mother Country (BOA Editions in 2020)\, poems about fertility\, motherhood\, and mental illness. Elana’s debut collection of poetry\, Eyes\, Stones (LSU Press 2012)\, was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and brings her complex heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In addition to leading her own embodied Creative Fire workshops\, Elana teaches poetry to actors at the Juilliard School and sings with the Resistance Revival Chorus\, a group of women activists and musicians committed to bringing joy and song to the resistance movement. She is also the founder of the Mother Artist Salon\, a community dedicated to supporting mothers in their artistic practice. www.elanabell.com\n \nPlease note these sessions will not be recorded. \nWe are happy to offer this series for free. Please consider adding a donation to Ritualwell to help us continue to offer free programs like this one!
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/filling-the-well-a-monthly-embodied-creativity-salon/2022-10-19/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Monthly program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260526T215024
CREATED:20220822T171809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T044511Z
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SUMMARY:Ritualwell Open House – September 21st
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Hila Ratzabi & Adva Chattler \nExplore Ritualwell’s online learning offerings at our open house days! Enjoy a taste of our faculty’s inspiring teachings with short\, 30-minute sessions. Free and open to all. \nOpen House sessions schedule: \n11:00 a.m. EDT\, Ellen Blum Barish: “Leaving a Legacy by Letter”\nThe letter has deep roots in Judaism. After his exile from Spain\, medieval Jewish rabbi Nachmanides (the Ramban) sent a letter to his son offering his blueprint for an ethical life. We will read Ramban’s letter as well as other literary letters to get a feel for how values and beliefs have been expressed and passed along to others. You will leave with writing prompts to help you explore your core values that may find articulation via letter. \n  \n \n11:30 a.m. EDT – ADVOT Info session\nCurious about ADVOT@Ritualwell\, our year-long cohort for ritual innovators\, poets\, and liturgists? Hop into an info session to ask your questions and learn more about this dynamic\, online\, Jewish creative community! \n  \n12:00 p.m. EDT\, Rachel Neve-Midbar: “Restoring the Soul: Entering the World of the Psalms”\nThe Torah offers us a vision of the world as it is and the world as we hope it might be. This is nowhere better exemplified than in the 150 poems written by a most imperfect man: David\, King of Israel. Enter the world of this gorgeous poetry that marries our flawed world with our hopes and dreams of a world beyond our own. \n  \n1:00 p.m. EDT\, Alden Solovy: “Song at the Sea: A Liturgy for the Ages”\nExplore the liturgical layers of Shirat Ha-Yam\, the Song at the Sea\, sung in triumph by the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea. Using both text study and guided visualization\, poet and liturgist Alden Solovy will guide us on our own journey to find meaning in this ancient song and to find writing prompts woven throughout the text. \n  \n2:00 p.m. EDT\, Sivan Rotholz: “Why Feminist Torah Matters”\nWhat is feminist Torah? Who writes it? Who reads it? And how does our Jewish experience open up when we re-encounter our sacred texts through a feminist lens? Join gynocentric Torah scholar and student rabbi Sivan Rotholz as we take a dip into the world of feminist Torah and discover\, together\, some of its treasures. \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/ritualwell-open-house-september-21st/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,Standalone session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T140000
DTSTAMP:20260526T215024
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SUMMARY:Ritualwell Open House – September 14th
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Hila Ratzabi & Adva Chattler \nExplore Ritualwell’s online learning offerings at our open house days! Enjoy a taste of our faculty’s inspiring teachings with short\, 30-minute sessions. Free and open to all. \nOpen House sessions schedule: \n11:00 a.m. EDT\, Leslie Contreras Schwartz: “Poetry as Prayer: Writing the Personal through Invocation”\nPoetry can be a conduit to exploring how our own lives connect to a sense of the Divine. We will explore how poets can examine the personal using aspects of prayer in their work. We will study poems that act as prayer or relate to prayer by Jewish writers\, and take home a prompt to start our own personal prayer-poem. \n  \n11:30 a.m. EDT\, Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein: “Returning to our Deepest Selves: Lessons on Teshuvah from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook”\nTeshuvah is sometimes understood as “repentance\,” but a more accurate translation would be “return.” Join us to explore perhaps its most important aspect: the journey of returning to our most authentic selves. Together\, we will learn and reflect upon our responses to heart-opening teachings about teshuvah from the great twentieth-century poet and mystic\, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. \n  \n12:00 p.m. EDT\, Trisha Arlin: “Truth and the Talking Donkey” \nWhat is truth telling? In parashat Balak\, it’s a talking donkey (and his passenger)\, and these days\, in shul\, sometimes it can be the liturgist and the poet. We will examine the relationship between truth and prayer\, and ask: What does a good talking donkey need to be their best self? \n  \n  \n \n12:30 p.m. EDT\, ADVOT Info session\nCurious about ADVOT@Ritualwell\, our year-long cohort for ritual innovators\, poets\, and liturgists? Hop into an info session to ask your questions and learn more about this dynamic\, online\, Jewish creative community! \n  \n1:00 p.m. EDT\, Amy Gottlieb: “A Taste of Story Magic: Short Story / Life Story”\nHow can a very short story contain the magnitude of a life story? We’ll dip into a brief short story by Grace Paley\, dissect its magic tricks\, and talk about how time is an invisible thread running through all good fiction. At the end of the session\, I’ll offer an inspiring prompt for sketching a short story / life story of your own.\n \n  \n2:00 p.m. EDT\, Ayeola Omolara Kaplan: “Dreaming up Olam Shalem: Creating a World that is Whole”\nExplore the creative relationship between Jewish spirituality and the practice of using art to build a holy society with Ayeola Omolara Kaplan\, a Black\, Queer\, and Jewish artist. Our conversation will inspire a collaborative artwork that Ayeola will begin sketching during the session and share with participants the following week. This experience will model a playful way to engage in Jewish spirituality that you can practice whenever you need to recharge your sense of hope and possibility. The collaborative art piece will serve as a reminder of the divine world we aspire to create together. \nThese sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/ritualwell-open-house-september-14th/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Free,Other Events,Standalone session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220908T200000
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SUMMARY:Voices of the Divine Feminine: A Poetry Reading with Joy Ladin & Hila Ratzabi
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Rabbi Deborah Waxman\nJoin us in celebrating the launch of two visionary new books of poetry. Shekhinah Speaks\, by Joy Ladin\, gives voices to the Divine Feminine by remixing language from the Book of Isaiah and Cosmopolitan magazine. There Are Still Woods\, by Hila Ratzabi\, is an urgent\, prayerful book of poems responding to the climate crisis\, and includes the voices of spirits\, gods\, and goddesses from a variety of sources. The poets will each read from their books and engage in a discussion with Rabbi Deborah Waxman on the creative process of tapping into the Divine Feminine to express the inexpressible. Audience Q&A will follow. \nJoy Ladin has published ten books of poetry\, including her new collection\, Shekhinah Speaks (Selva Oscura Press); The Book of Anna\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and Transmigration\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is also the author of a memoir of gender transition\, Through the Door of Life\, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award\, and The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and the Triangle Award. Ladin has received fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Fulbright Foundation\, and the American Council of Learned Societies Research\, among other honors. A nationally recognized speaker on transgender issues\, she convenes an online conversation series\, “Containing Multitudes\,” which is available at JewishLive.org/multitudes. Her writing is available at joyladin.wordpress.com. \nHila Ratzabi is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods\, forthcoming in September 2022 from June Road Press. She holds a BA in English/Creative Writing from Barnard College\, a BA in Jewish Philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary (Double Degree Program\, 2003)\, and an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College (2007). Her poetry is published in a variety of literary journals and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Her articles have appeared in publications including The Wisdom Daily\, MyJewishLearning.com\, the Jewish Daily Forward\, Kveller\, Alma\, and Zeek. Ratzabi is Director of Virtual Content & Programs at Ritualwell.org and lives in Oak Park\, Il.\, outside Chicago\, with her spouse and two children. \nRabbi Deborah Waxman\, Ph.D.\, president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism\, is the first woman rabbi to head a Jewish congregational union and seminary. She has drawn on her training as a rabbi and historian to be the Reconstructionist movement’s leading voice in the public square. Her writing has appeared in the Forward\, The Times of Israel\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, HuffPost\, Jewish Telegraphic Agency\, and other news and academic outlets. Rabbi Waxman was named an LGBT History Icon in 2020. She projects a vision of Judaism that embraces all people and inspires Jews to be strong allies to the most vulnerable among us. \n  \nThe session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/voices-of-the-divine-feminine-a-poetry-reading-with-joy-ladin-hila-ratzabi/
CATEGORIES:Event,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220907T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220907T140000
DTSTAMP:20260526T215024
CREATED:20220822T164623Z
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SUMMARY:Ritualwell Open House – September 7th
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Hila Ratzabi & Adva Chattler \nExplore Ritualwell’s online learning offerings at our open house days! Enjoy a taste of our faculty’s inspiring teachings with short\, 30-minute sessions. Free and open to all. \nOpen House sessions schedule: \n11:00 a.m. EDT\, Hila Ratzabi: “Writing the Earth’s Torah”\nNow more than ever we need to give voice to the Earth’s cry for protection and reverence. Join poet Hila Ratzabi in exploring a few texts from the Psalms and Kabbalah that will serve as our inspiration for writing our own environmental prayers and poems. No writing experience necessary! \n  \n11:30 a.m. EDT\, Sonia Gordon-Walinsky: “An Artistic Interpretation of the Name Pasuk”\nDiscover the tradition of the “name pasuk” (name verse)—a medieval minhag (custom) that Rashi refers to as an “ancient remedy”—and how artist Sonia Gordon-Walinsky is transforming it into an expression of personal connection to Torah/Tanakh. \n  \n12:00 p.m. EDT\, Cathy Cohen: “Ekphrasis: The Poet” \nMarc Chagall painted Half-Past Three (The Poet) in 1911 after leaving Russia and settling in Paris among the community of artists and poets. This painting of his friend\, the poet Alexander Mazin\, conveys energy and emotion as well as a variety of intriguing symbols. It’s a perfect springboard for us to explore the relationship between painter and poet\, between visual art and written text. We will write our own ekphrastic poems based on the painting. \n12:30 p.m. EDT\, Rabbi Haviva Ner-David: “Finding Hope in Israel/Palestine”\nJoin rabbi and author Haviva Ner-David to hear about some of what is happening in Israel/Palestine that offers glimmers of hope: stories you don’t tend to hear in the mainstream media. She will share about her ongoing activity as part of a growing Arab-Jewish movement working together to build a shared equal and just society through deep listening\, acknowledging one another’s narratives\, healing collective trauma\, and joint grassroots activism to build a better future for all in Israel/Palestine. \n1:00 p.m. EDT\, Mike Brown: “Planning Your Jewish Garden”\nWhat makes a “Jewish garden”? Some plants will help transport you to different times and places; others will entice your senses with aromas\, tastes\, and beauty\, while providing fruits and vegetables for Jewish holidays. This session will prepare you to “hit the ground running” in the spring with tips on preparing your Jewish garden. In honor of the upcoming Jewish New Year\, we will also discuss ways to help bees by patronizing local beekeepers and planting flowers\, shrubs\, and trees that nourish bees. \n \n1:30 p.m. EDT – ADVOT Info session\nCurious about ADVOT@Ritualwell\, our year-long cohort for ritual innovators\, poets\, and liturgists? Hop into an info session to ask your questions and learn more about this dynamic\, online\, Jewish creative community! \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/ritualwell-open-house-september-7th/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Free,Other Events,Standalone session
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SUMMARY:Making Ripples: Celebrating ADVOT@Ritualwell
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Hila Ratzabi & Adva Chattler\nJoin us to celebrate the first year of ADVOT@Ritualwell\, an online creative community of ritual innovators\, poets and liturgists. All year long our members have been writing new poems\, prayers and rituals\, nourished by monthly salons on topics related to Jewish creativity\, and supporting each other at our weekly online writing studio. We now come together to celebrate the fruits of our creative labor and hear the voices of our inspiring community. This event is free and open to all. \nFeaturing: Terry Boyle\, Jane Blumenthal\, Alex Carter\, Jessica de Koninck\, Batya Diamond\, Janet Madden\, Heather Paul\, Danielle Selber\, Janice Steinberg\, Amy Steingart\, Karen Webber \nDonations are welcome and will support the ADVOT program. \nADVOT@Ritualwell is an online creative community of ritual innovators\, poets and liturgists who meet regularly to share work and support and empower each other to create and innovate Jewish ritual\, poetry and liturgy. Launched in 2021\, ADVOT means “ripples” in Hebrew. RIPL (pronounced “ripple”) is the acronym of “Ritual Innovators\, Poets\, Liturgists.” \nThank you to Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah for supporting ADVOT. \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/making-ripples-celebrating-advotritualwell/
CATEGORIES:Event,Free
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