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
Recurring

Holding Each Other

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: healing, Kaddish, minyan, Misheberech

Zoom

Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.

Free
Recurring

Ancient and Modern Jewish Myths of Soil and Stone

Facilitator: Sarah Chandler aka Kohenet Shamirah

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, ritual crafting, Spiritual practice

Zoom

Join Kohenet Shamirah Bechirah, also known as Sarah Chandler, as we delve into the realms of dust, stones, and soil, exploring themes from Hebrew Bible creation myths to the ten plagues and King Solomon’s encounters with demons.

$180

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
Recurring

Holding Each Other

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Program Type: Event, Free

Topic: healing, Kaddish, minyan, Misheberech

Zoom

Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.

Free
Recurring

Ancient and Modern Jewish Myths of Soil and Stone

Facilitator: Sarah Chandler aka Kohenet Shamirah

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: Jewish spirituality, ritual crafting, Spiritual practice

Zoom

Join Kohenet Shamirah Bechirah, also known as Sarah Chandler, as we delve into the realms of dust, stones, and soil, exploring themes from Hebrew Bible creation myths to the ten plagues and King Solomon’s encounters with demons.

$180

Recurring

Writing Jewish, Writing Funny

Facilitator: Rob Kutner

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: comedy, Jewish humor, Writing

Zoom

Join us for an engaging adventure with Emmy-winning TV writer and LMU film school professor Rob Kutner as we delve into how Jews have utilized humor to navigate their challenging history. Together, we will explore various "tricks of the trade" to spread joy to ourselves and others during these tough times.

$180
Recurring

Finding Shekhinah

Facilitator: Joy Ladin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality

Zoom

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

$180
Recurring

Deep Body Poetry

Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women

Zoom

Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.

$180
Recurring

Writing Jewish, Writing Funny

Facilitator: Rob Kutner

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: comedy, Jewish humor, Writing

Zoom

Join us for an engaging adventure with Emmy-winning TV writer and LMU film school professor Rob Kutner as we delve into how Jews have utilized humor to navigate their challenging history. Together, we will explore various "tricks of the trade" to spread joy to ourselves and others during these tough times.

$180
Recurring

Finding Shekhinah

Facilitator: Joy Ladin

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality

Zoom

Explore the Shekhinah’s many incarnations in Jewish tradition through text study, discussion, and creative exercises intended to help us examine our ideas about and experiences of divinity, and imaginatively trying out different relations to divine presence.

$180

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