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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 
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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 
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