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SUMMARY:Writing Memoir from Photos
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, May 4\, 11 & 18\, 2026\n1-2:30 p.m.\n$154\n \n\nPhotographs are powerful vessels of memory—small artifacts that live in albums\, frames\, and on our phones\, holding moments of joy\, longing\, love\, and loss. \nIn this three-week memoir writing workshop\, led by Lisa Grunberger\, we will explore how photos can serve as meaningful starting points for writing about the past. Together\, we’ll consider how images invite stories forward\, helping us approach both cherished memories and more difficult ones with care. \nAlongside our own writing\, we will engage with reflections on photography from writers such as Susan Sontag and John Berger. Through guided prompts and gentle exercises\, participants will use personal photographs to generate new creative work\, including short “micro-memoirs” that can stand alone or grow into longer pieces. \nEach session will include time for sharing\, discussion\, and supportive feedback. Working with photos can be a tender\, accessible way to honor our experiences and deepen the stories we carry. \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \nPoetry Pushcart nominee and Temple University English Professor Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her award-winning poetry book For the Future of Girls is a lyrical reflection on life as a woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Holocaust survivors. It was nominated for an Eric Hoffer Independent Press award. She’s the author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins); Her poems appear in Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology (The Laurel Review\, 2023). A widely published writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Newsday\, The Southern Review\, The Paterson Literary Review\, Mudfish\, Bridges\, Of the Book Press\, The Jewish Literary Journal\, and Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture and Heritage (ELJ Editions)\, Crab Orchard Review\, Mom Egg Review\, The Baffler. She’s been translated into Slovenian\, Russian\, Spanish\, Yiddish.\n\nALMOST PREGNANT\, her play about infertility and motherhood\, is published by Next Stage Press; Her play\, Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre. She’s working on a memoir called Me and My Makers: A Memoir of Adoption\, Genes and Love.\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
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SUMMARY:A Special Omer Gathering: Finding Purpose in Challenging Times
DESCRIPTION:Join Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg for a powerful live conversation on living with purpose\, integrity\, and resilience.\nWednesday\, May 20\, 2026\n1-2:00 p.m. EDT \n\nJoin Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg—an activist\, author\, and spiritual leader known for her work on justice\, accountability\, and Jewish ethics—for a powerful live conversation on living with purpose\, integrity\, and resilience. \nRabbi Danya brings a rare ability to weave Jewish wisdom with the urgent questions of our time\, offering guidance that is both deeply grounded and immediately relevant. Her teaching helps us navigate complexity with clarity and compassion—especially when the path forward feels uncertain. \nAs we move through the Omer and approach its culmination\, this gathering offers a space to pause\, reflect\, and reconnect with what matters most. Together\, we’ll explore how we continue to show up with intention in a world that asks so much of us. \nCome ready to listen\, reflect\, and leave feeling renewed in your sense of purpose. \n\n\nDeepen Your Omer Journey \nThis gathering is part of Omer Counting for Purpose—a seven-week journey of reflection and creativity rooted in the sacred qualities of the Omer. \nWhen you join\, you’ll receive weekly teachings\, short videos\, and writing prompts to help you explore your purpose through qualities like love\, strength\, resilience\, and connection. \nWhat You’ll Receive \n\nWeekly email teachings + short videos\nReflective writing prompts and practices\nA guided journey through the seven sacred qualities of the Omer\nAccess to our culminating live event with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg\n\nWhen you join Omer Counting for Purpose\, you’re not only stepping into a meaningful personal journey—you’re also supporting Ritualwell’s work of creativity\, connection\, and Jewish meaning-making. \nYour gift helps keep these resources accessible and this community thriving. \n\nCome to be nourished by community\, guided by wisdom\, and reminded that your presence—and your purpose—matter. \n \n\nThis session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \n\n \nRabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author of eight books who now makes her primary writing home with the newsletter/magazine LifeIsASacredText.com. She has received the Lives of Commitment Award from Auburn Seminary\, and the Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award from the human rights organization T’ruah\, was named by Newsweek as a “rabbi to watch\,” and as a “faith leader to watch” by the Center for American Progress\, and has been a Sunday Washington Post crossword clue (83 Down). Her most recent book\, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World is a National Jewish Book Award winner and an American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Honor Book. It was hailed by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley as “A must read for anyone navigating the work of justice and healing.” \nShe has written for a number of publications\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, and been featured on NPR\, the Today Show\, USA Today\, MTV News\, and elsewhere. Her activism has taken her from the jail cell to the White House and back again\, and has included advising lawmakers; organizing 2\,500 rabbis in the fight for reproductive freedom through the fall of Roe; and mobilizing Jewish communities around economic justice and abuse accountability. Her North Star is the belief that we have a moral and religious obligation to care for one another\, and to fight for a more just world. \n 
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