Facilitator: Susan Comninos
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, creativity, folklore, Poetry
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.
Facilitator: Adva Chattler and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: ADVOT, Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Poetry, Writing
Celebrate our ADVOT community of Jewish writers as we share new work from our fourth anthology!
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
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.
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
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.
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
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.
Facilitator: Joy Ladin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality
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.
Facilitator: Trisha Arlin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, Elul, grief, Kaddish, Liturgy, prayer, yizkor
Join liturgist Trisha Arlin in a meaningful Elul journey that includes conversation, meditation, and creative writing. Together, we will delve into various aspects of the Kaddish, connecting it to your personal grief journey and the wider state of the world.
Facilitator: Trisha Arlin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, Elul, grief, Kaddish, Liturgy, prayer, yizkor
Join liturgist Trisha Arlin in a meaningful Elul journey that includes conversation, meditation, and creative writing. Together, we will delve into various aspects of the Kaddish, connecting it to your personal grief journey and the wider state of the world.
Facilitator: Trisha Arlin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, Elul, grief, Kaddish, Liturgy, prayer, yizkor
Join liturgist Trisha Arlin in a meaningful Elul journey that includes conversation, meditation, and creative writing. Together, we will delve into various aspects of the Kaddish, connecting it to your personal grief journey and the wider state of the world.
Facilitator: Trisha Arlin
Program Type: Immersions
Topic: creative writing, Elul, grief, Kaddish, Liturgy, prayer, yizkor
Join liturgist Trisha Arlin in a meaningful Elul journey that includes conversation, meditation, and creative writing. Together, we will delve into various aspects of the Kaddish, connecting it to your personal grief journey and the wider state of the world.
Facilitator: Zibby Owens
Program Type: Event, Free
Topic: creative writing, Jewish joy, On Being Jewish Now, reading, Zibby Owens
Join writer, podcaster, and publisher Zibby Owens in conversation with Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer as they explore what it means to be Jewish right now—how our questions, traditions, worries, and hopes shape our lives and connect us to one another. You’ll be invited into a guided generative writing session to reflect on your own relationship to Jewishness in this moment
Facilitator: Rabbi Jacob Staub and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Event
Topic: creative writing, creativity, Days of Awe, mindfulness, Poetry, prayer, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippuer
Start the new year with intention. Our new Ritualwell booklet offers poems, prayers, and creative prompts to guide you through the Days of Awe. Grounded in Judaism’s calls to Teshuvah, Tefillah, and Tzedakah, you’ll find meaningful, doable ways to renew yourself and help repair the world. Purchase includes access to a special meditation and reflection event with Rabbi Jacob Staub.
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