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Honoring Loved Ones in Writing & Art

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer and Cathleen Cohen

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: ancestors, creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Memoir, Poetry, visual art

Zoom

Now more than ever, we need the wisdom of our ancestors, and creative expression serves as a beautiful avenue for this connection. Join us to explore, activate and express your love and appreciation for the teachers, friends and loved ones who have profoundly influenced your life and to invoke their wisdom within your own.

$180

Bringing Your Purim Story To Life

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Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, Jewish stories, Purim, storytelling

Zoom

Purim is a tale of resilience, standing up and speaking out. Now more than ever, we need YOUR story!

Join Cantor and performing artist Karen Webber for a creative journey drawing inspiration from fairy tales, folk tales and the Purim story to craft your own narrative about finding courage, speaking your truth and fighting for justice. Whether you share your story for the holiday or another occasion, Purim is the perfect opportunity to embrace your role as a storyteller.

Join a two-part series with Cantor and performing artist Karen Webber, who will guide you in shaping and crafting an original tale, using fairy tales, folk tales, Jewish texts and other sources. Learn how to animate your story by focusing on voice modulation, dynamics, intonation, physicality and the lyrical essence of your words.

$18
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Writing with Rebbe Nachman: Creating our own Spiritual Stories

Facilitator: Daniel Raphael Silverstein

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Jewish texts, Kabbalah, Rebbe Nachman

Zoom

Learn about and discuss some of Rebbe Nachman's key stories, discovering the meaning that they hold for us today. Rebbe Nachman's stories will inspire our own wisdom story writing.

$250
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Honoring Loved Ones in Writing & Art

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer and Cathleen Cohen

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: ancestors, creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Memoir, Poetry, visual art

Zoom

Now more than ever, we need the wisdom of our ancestors, and creative expression serves as a beautiful avenue for this connection. Join us to explore, activate and express your love and appreciation for the teachers, friends and loved ones who have profoundly influenced your life and to invoke their wisdom within your own.

$180
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Writing with Rebbe Nachman: Creating our own Spiritual Stories

Facilitator: Daniel Raphael Silverstein

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Jewish texts, Kabbalah, Rebbe Nachman

Zoom

Learn about and discuss some of Rebbe Nachman's key stories, discovering the meaning that they hold for us today. Rebbe Nachman's stories will inspire our own wisdom story writing.

$250
Recurring

Honoring Loved Ones in Writing & Art

Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer and Cathleen Cohen

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: ancestors, creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Memoir, Poetry, visual art

Zoom

Now more than ever, we need the wisdom of our ancestors, and creative expression serves as a beautiful avenue for this connection. Join us to explore, activate and express your love and appreciation for the teachers, friends and loved ones who have profoundly influenced your life and to invoke their wisdom within your own.

$180

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Discover Your Torah: Preparing for Shavuot with Meditation and Poetry

Facilitator: Elana Bell and Rabbi Dan Liben

Program Type: Immersions

Topic: creative writing, jewish meditation, Jewish spirituality, mindfulness, Poetry, Shavuot, Torah

Zoom

Join a special collaboration between the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Ritualwell to prepare for Shavuot through mindfulness meditation, poetry and generative writing practices.

$150

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

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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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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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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

The Reconstructionist Network

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Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

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Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

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Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

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Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis

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Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

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Magnify the Light: A Hanukkah Practice for 5786/2025

Join us for a special event and receive a new booklet of readings and creative prompts to guide you through the Festival of Lights.

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The Reconstructionist Network

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A blank white image with no visible elements or details.

Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis