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SUMMARY:Writing in Conversation with Kohelet
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, November 4\, 11 & 18\, 2025\n12:00-1:30 p.m.\n$154\n \n\nThe Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) is a poetic\, puzzling\, and deeply human text—full of contradictions\, timeless wisdom\, and evocative imagery. In this 3-part generative writing series\, you’ll be invited to slow down\, listen closely\, and let Kohelet’s searching questions about purpose\, joy\, mortality\, and meaning spark your own reflections.\nEach session will offer:\n\n\n\nGuided exploration of selected passages from Kohelet that open up new ways of thinking about life’s biggest questions.\nCreative prompts to help you respond in your own voice—through poetry\, memoir\, fiction\, or spiritual writing.\nA supportive space to share and connect with others who are also writing their way into deeper wisdom.\n\n\n  \nBy the end of the series\, you’ll leave with fresh writing\, new insights into this mysterious text\, and a sense of connection to an ancient tradition that still speaks to the heart. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and create. All levels of writing experience are warmly welcomed. \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\nAmy Gottlieb is a novelist and poet. Her debut novel\, The Beautiful Possible\, was a finalist for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold Ribalow Prize\, and a National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. Her poetry has appeared in On Being\, Ilanot Review\, Storyscape\, SWWIM\, Quartet Journal\, Poetica\, Paper Brigade\, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Civita Institute and five individual awards from the Bronx Council on the Arts.\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/writing-in-conversation-with-kohelet/2025-11-04/
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Oct 29\, 2025 and November 5\, 12 & 19\, 2025 \n12-1:30 p.m. EST\n$180\n \nWhat moments from the rituals of your life could inspire a new play? What makes a play a Jewish play and how can we weave Jewish ritual and values into what’s on the page? Where to start? How to go deeper?\n \nBy taking inspiration from both religious rituals and the commonalities of life Jewish families hold dear\, award-winning playwright Jennifer Maisel will guide you through writing exercises that will uncover new facets to your characters and more complex elements of your story. You can be starting from scratch or working on an already existing piece. But come ready to stretch your imagination\, explore your spirit\, and discover how ritual can transform your writing. Show up with pen\, paper\, and the willingness to be inspired.\n \nThis Immersion is a special partnership with the Jewish Plays Project.\n \n\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\nJennifer Maisel is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced off-Broadway\, nationally and internationally. Her plays include EIGHT NIGHTS\, OUT OF ORBIT\, MATCH. PROVENANCE\, THERE OR HERE\, YELLOWWALLPAPER 2.0 2020 and @thespeedofJake and have been workshopped and honored by the Sundance Theatre Lab\, the Ojai Playwrights Conference\, The Kennedy Center\, the Ovation Awards\, the Woodward/Newman Award\, the Asolo Theatre and the PEN West Literary Awards. She also writes for film and television; the screenplay adaptation of her THE LAST SEDER is in pre-production with Rosalind Productions. PROVENANCE was the winner of the 2025 Jewish Plays Project contest.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/everyday-rituals-jewish-life-as-the-framework-for-playwriting/2025-11-05/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems\, Dybukks and Shpilkas
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, October 30 and November 6\, 13\,  & 20\, 2025\n12-1:30 p.m. ET\n$180\n \nWhat Inspires Your Poetry?\n \nIn Jewish tradition\, stories and symbols shimmer with possibility—golems who guard and protect\, dybbuks who haunt and unsettle\, wise sayings passed down in mameloshen (Yiddish and other beloved tongues). These mythic images and words have traveled through generations\, carrying echoes of our history\, humor\, and heart.\n \nIn this Immersion with poet Susan Comninos\, we’ll step into this rich imaginative landscape\, exploring how folklore\, family stories\, and cultural memory can awaken new inspiration for your writing. Susan will guide us in weaving together personal history and timeless myth\, crafting poems that honor our creative inheritance while speaking in our own\, present-day voices. Come to reflect\, to write\, and to join others in a circle of Jewish creativity—where the past and present meet on the page\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nSusan Comninos is a widely published writer and author of a recent book of poems\, “Out of Nowhere” (Stephen F. Austin Univ. Press/Texas A&M\, 2022). Her individual poems\, often on Jewish themes\, have appeared in the Harvard Review Online\, Rattle\, The Common\, Prairie Schooner and North American Review\, among others. She’s taught writing to undergraduates at Siena College\, The College of St. Rose and SUNY Albany\, as well as to adults in the community. She is currently at work on a second collection of poems\, called “Wild Joy of Receiving” and is the poetry editor for Judith. She lives in upstate New York.\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/seeding-family-based-poems-with-golems-dybukks-and-shpilkas/2025-11-06/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Writing in Conversation with Kohelet
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, November 4\, 11 & 18\, 2025\n12:00-1:30 p.m.\n$154\n \n\nThe Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) is a poetic\, puzzling\, and deeply human text—full of contradictions\, timeless wisdom\, and evocative imagery. In this 3-part generative writing series\, you’ll be invited to slow down\, listen closely\, and let Kohelet’s searching questions about purpose\, joy\, mortality\, and meaning spark your own reflections.\nEach session will offer:\n\n\n\nGuided exploration of selected passages from Kohelet that open up new ways of thinking about life’s biggest questions.\nCreative prompts to help you respond in your own voice—through poetry\, memoir\, fiction\, or spiritual writing.\nA supportive space to share and connect with others who are also writing their way into deeper wisdom.\n\n\n  \nBy the end of the series\, you’ll leave with fresh writing\, new insights into this mysterious text\, and a sense of connection to an ancient tradition that still speaks to the heart. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and create. All levels of writing experience are warmly welcomed. \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\nAmy Gottlieb is a novelist and poet. Her debut novel\, The Beautiful Possible\, was a finalist for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold Ribalow Prize\, and a National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. Her poetry has appeared in On Being\, Ilanot Review\, Storyscape\, SWWIM\, Quartet Journal\, Poetica\, Paper Brigade\, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Civita Institute and five individual awards from the Bronx Council on the Arts.\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/writing-in-conversation-with-kohelet/2025-11-11/
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Before All the World: A Creative Conversation with Moriel Rothman-Zecher
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 11\, 2025\n8:00-9:00 p.m. EST\n \nIn recognition of Jewish Book Month\, join us for an intimate\, interactive online gathering with award-winning author Moriel Rothman-Zecher to explore his bold\, genre-bending novel Before All the World. Together\, we’ll dive into the book’s inventive use of language\, its weaving of Jewish memory\, resilience\, and love\, and the ways stories can hold both the ache of history and the possibility of transformation. This is more than a reading—it’s a conversation about writing\, identity\, and the sacred work of storytelling. Bring your curiosity\, your questions\, and your writer’s heart.\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 \nMoriel Rothman-Zecher is the author of the novels Before All the World\, which was named an NPR Best Book\, and Sadness Is a White Bird\, for which he received the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ Honor\, and which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, the winner of the Ohio Book Award\, a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award\, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. His work has been published in The American Poetry Review\, Barrelhouse\, Colorado Review\, The Common\, Jewish Currents\, Lit Hub\, Nashville Review\, The New York Times\, Poetry Daily\, The Paris Review’s Daily\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. Moriel is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships\, and teaches creative writing at Swarthmore College\, where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing\, and is also a member of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars’ MFA Program. \n  \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n \n \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/before-all-the-world-a-creative-conversation-with-moriel-rothman-zecher/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Oct 29\, 2025 and November 5\, 12 & 19\, 2025 \n12-1:30 p.m. EST\n$180\n \nWhat moments from the rituals of your life could inspire a new play? What makes a play a Jewish play and how can we weave Jewish ritual and values into what’s on the page? Where to start? How to go deeper?\n \nBy taking inspiration from both religious rituals and the commonalities of life Jewish families hold dear\, award-winning playwright Jennifer Maisel will guide you through writing exercises that will uncover new facets to your characters and more complex elements of your story. You can be starting from scratch or working on an already existing piece. But come ready to stretch your imagination\, explore your spirit\, and discover how ritual can transform your writing. Show up with pen\, paper\, and the willingness to be inspired.\n \nThis Immersion is a special partnership with the Jewish Plays Project.\n \n\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\nJennifer Maisel is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced off-Broadway\, nationally and internationally. Her plays include EIGHT NIGHTS\, OUT OF ORBIT\, MATCH. PROVENANCE\, THERE OR HERE\, YELLOWWALLPAPER 2.0 2020 and @thespeedofJake and have been workshopped and honored by the Sundance Theatre Lab\, the Ojai Playwrights Conference\, The Kennedy Center\, the Ovation Awards\, the Woodward/Newman Award\, the Asolo Theatre and the PEN West Literary Awards. She also writes for film and television; the screenplay adaptation of her THE LAST SEDER is in pre-production with Rosalind Productions. PROVENANCE was the winner of the 2025 Jewish Plays Project contest.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/everyday-rituals-jewish-life-as-the-framework-for-playwriting/2025-11-12/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems\, Dybukks and Shpilkas
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, October 30 and November 6\, 13\,  & 20\, 2025\n12-1:30 p.m. ET\n$180\n \nWhat Inspires Your Poetry?\n \nIn Jewish tradition\, stories and symbols shimmer with possibility—golems who guard and protect\, dybbuks who haunt and unsettle\, wise sayings passed down in mameloshen (Yiddish and other beloved tongues). These mythic images and words have traveled through generations\, carrying echoes of our history\, humor\, and heart.\n \nIn this Immersion with poet Susan Comninos\, we’ll step into this rich imaginative landscape\, exploring how folklore\, family stories\, and cultural memory can awaken new inspiration for your writing. Susan will guide us in weaving together personal history and timeless myth\, crafting poems that honor our creative inheritance while speaking in our own\, present-day voices. Come to reflect\, to write\, and to join others in a circle of Jewish creativity—where the past and present meet on the page\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nSusan Comninos is a widely published writer and author of a recent book of poems\, “Out of Nowhere” (Stephen F. Austin Univ. Press/Texas A&M\, 2022). Her individual poems\, often on Jewish themes\, have appeared in the Harvard Review Online\, Rattle\, The Common\, Prairie Schooner and North American Review\, among others. She’s taught writing to undergraduates at Siena College\, The College of St. Rose and SUNY Albany\, as well as to adults in the community. She is currently at work on a second collection of poems\, called “Wild Joy of Receiving” and is the poetry editor for Judith. She lives in upstate New York.\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/seeding-family-based-poems-with-golems-dybukks-and-shpilkas/2025-11-13/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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SUMMARY:Before I Go: Writing the Ethical Will
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 13\, 2025\n1-2:30 p.m. EST\n$18\n \n\nLiving wills address the physical body. Financial wills protect property. But an ethical will is a gift of the heart and spirit—a way to pass along the stories\, values\, and wisdom that have shaped your life. \nIn this workshop with memoirist Ellen Blum Barish\, you’ll be invited to slow down\, reflect\, and give voice to the memories and teachings that matter most to you. Together\, we’ll explore how writing can help you express what sustains your hope\, the values that guide you\, and the ways you’ve experienced the presence of God or the sacred. Through thoughtful prompts\, journaling time\, and opportunities for gentle sharing\, you’ll begin shaping words that carry your love\, faith\, and spirit forward. \nYou’ll leave not only with the beginnings of an ethical will\, but also with a renewed sense of connection to your own life story—and with tools to continue this meaningful work at home. This is not about being a “writer\,” but about finding your voice and discovering how your words can become a legacy for the people you love and for generations yet to come. No prior writing experience is needed—just your willingness to show up with an open heart. \nThis event will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \n\nEllen Blum Barish is the author of the spiritual memoir Seven Springs (Shanti Arts\, 2021)\, the essay collection Views from the Home Office Window (Adams Street Publishing\, 2007)\, and a contributor to Chicago Storytellers From Stage to Page (Chicago Story Press\, 2020). You can find her personal essays in Tablet\, Lilith\, Brevity’s Blog\, Full Grown People\, Literary Mama\, and The Chicago Tribune and hear them on Chicago Public Radio. She founded the literary publication Thread\, which earned four notables in Best American Essays. Ellen has taught writing at Northwestern University\, Chicago-area synagogues\, and writer’s studios\, including Story Studio Chicago and Lighthouse Lit Fest. She works privately with writers on essay collections and memoir.
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/before-i-go-writing-the-ethical-will/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Writing in Conversation with Kohelet
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, November 4\, 11 & 18\, 2025\n12:00-1:30 p.m.\n$154\n \n\nThe Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) is a poetic\, puzzling\, and deeply human text—full of contradictions\, timeless wisdom\, and evocative imagery. In this 3-part generative writing series\, you’ll be invited to slow down\, listen closely\, and let Kohelet’s searching questions about purpose\, joy\, mortality\, and meaning spark your own reflections.\nEach session will offer:\n\n\n\nGuided exploration of selected passages from Kohelet that open up new ways of thinking about life’s biggest questions.\nCreative prompts to help you respond in your own voice—through poetry\, memoir\, fiction\, or spiritual writing.\nA supportive space to share and connect with others who are also writing their way into deeper wisdom.\n\n\n  \nBy the end of the series\, you’ll leave with fresh writing\, new insights into this mysterious text\, and a sense of connection to an ancient tradition that still speaks to the heart. Come ready to read\, reflect\, and create. All levels of writing experience are warmly welcomed. \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\nAmy Gottlieb is a novelist and poet. Her debut novel\, The Beautiful Possible\, was a finalist for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold Ribalow Prize\, and a National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. Her poetry has appeared in On Being\, Ilanot Review\, Storyscape\, SWWIM\, Quartet Journal\, Poetica\, Paper Brigade\, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Civita Institute and five individual awards from the Bronx Council on the Arts.\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/writing-in-conversation-with-kohelet/2025-11-18/
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T133000
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SUMMARY:Everyday Rituals: Jewish Life as the Framework for Playwriting
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Oct 29\, 2025 and November 5\, 12 & 19\, 2025 \n12-1:30 p.m. EST\n$180\n \nWhat moments from the rituals of your life could inspire a new play? What makes a play a Jewish play and how can we weave Jewish ritual and values into what’s on the page? Where to start? How to go deeper?\n \nBy taking inspiration from both religious rituals and the commonalities of life Jewish families hold dear\, award-winning playwright Jennifer Maisel will guide you through writing exercises that will uncover new facets to your characters and more complex elements of your story. You can be starting from scratch or working on an already existing piece. But come ready to stretch your imagination\, explore your spirit\, and discover how ritual can transform your writing. Show up with pen\, paper\, and the willingness to be inspired.\n \nThis Immersion is a special partnership with the Jewish Plays Project.\n \n\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\nJennifer Maisel is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced off-Broadway\, nationally and internationally. Her plays include EIGHT NIGHTS\, OUT OF ORBIT\, MATCH. PROVENANCE\, THERE OR HERE\, YELLOWWALLPAPER 2.0 2020 and @thespeedofJake and have been workshopped and honored by the Sundance Theatre Lab\, the Ojai Playwrights Conference\, The Kennedy Center\, the Ovation Awards\, the Woodward/Newman Award\, the Asolo Theatre and the PEN West Literary Awards. She also writes for film and television; the screenplay adaptation of her THE LAST SEDER is in pre-production with Rosalind Productions. PROVENANCE was the winner of the 2025 Jewish Plays Project contest.\n \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/everyday-rituals-jewish-life-as-the-framework-for-playwriting/2025-11-19/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T133000
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SUMMARY:Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems\, Dybukks and Shpilkas
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, October 30 and November 6\, 13\,  & 20\, 2025\n12-1:30 p.m. ET\n$180\n \nWhat Inspires Your Poetry?\n \nIn Jewish tradition\, stories and symbols shimmer with possibility—golems who guard and protect\, dybbuks who haunt and unsettle\, wise sayings passed down in mameloshen (Yiddish and other beloved tongues). These mythic images and words have traveled through generations\, carrying echoes of our history\, humor\, and heart.\n \nIn this Immersion with poet Susan Comninos\, we’ll step into this rich imaginative landscape\, exploring how folklore\, family stories\, and cultural memory can awaken new inspiration for your writing. Susan will guide us in weaving together personal history and timeless myth\, crafting poems that honor our creative inheritance while speaking in our own\, present-day voices. Come to reflect\, to write\, and to join others in a circle of Jewish creativity—where the past and present meet on the page\n \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \nSusan Comninos is a widely published writer and author of a recent book of poems\, “Out of Nowhere” (Stephen F. Austin Univ. Press/Texas A&M\, 2022). Her individual poems\, often on Jewish themes\, have appeared in the Harvard Review Online\, Rattle\, The Common\, Prairie Schooner and North American Review\, among others. She’s taught writing to undergraduates at Siena College\, The College of St. Rose and SUNY Albany\, as well as to adults in the community. She is currently at work on a second collection of poems\, called “Wild Joy of Receiving” and is the poetry editor for Judith. She lives in upstate New York.\n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/seeding-family-based-poems-with-golems-dybukks-and-shpilkas/2025-11-20/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Immersions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T133000
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SUMMARY:Balancing Gratitude and Grief: A Pre-Thanksgiving Writing Ritual
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 25\, 2025\n12-1:30 p.m. EST\n \n\n\nAs 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.\n \nJoin Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer\, Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs\, for a reflective and creative gathering that invites you to bring your full heart to the holiday. You’ll be guided to create your own words and rituals that bring sacred awareness to your Thanksgiving table—and to everyday moments of gratitude and remembrance.\n\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\nGabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer is Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs. She is a spiritual director\, author and educator whose work focuses on spirituality\, creativity and disability. Her personal essays have been featured in Tablet\, Shondaland\, NBCThink\, Wisdom Daily\, WHYY and many other publications and she has published several nonfiction books as well as plays for children. Gabrielle is currently working on a memoir about the power of intuition and ongoing conversations with her ancestors. She writes a Substack newsletter called “Journey With The Seasons\,” a weekly practice of meditative reading with creative self-expression prompts. Gabrielle holds a BFA in theater and creative writing from Emerson College and an MA in Jewish Studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. \n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
URL:https://ritualwell.org/event/balancing-gratitude-and-grief-a-pre-thanksgiving-writing-ritual/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Free
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