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  • July 2025

  • Thu 24
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    Deep Body Poetry

    July 24, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women

    Zoom

    Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.

    $180
  • Thu 31
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    Deep Body Poetry

    July 31, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    Facilitator: Rachel Neve-Midbar

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: disability, Jewish women, LGBTQ+, Poetry, somactic, trans, women

    Zoom

    Join poet Rachel Neve-Midbar to explore the emotional truths of poetry of the body. This experience allows your mind and heart to awaken as we begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets and from there, generate creative expression.

    $180
  • September 2025

  • Tue 30
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    More than Wishing: Creating a Happy New Year

    September 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

    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

    Zoom

    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.

    $18
  • October 2025

  • Thu 30
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    Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

    October 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Recurring

    Facilitator: Susan Comninos

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: creative writing, folklore, Jewish wisdom, Poetry

    Zoom

    In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You'll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

    $180
  • November 2025

  • Thu 6
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    Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

    November 6, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Recurring

    Facilitator: Susan Comninos

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: creative writing, folklore, Jewish wisdom, Poetry

    Zoom

    In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You'll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

    $180
  • Thu 13
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    Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

    November 13, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Recurring

    Facilitator: Susan Comninos

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: creative writing, folklore, Jewish wisdom, Poetry

    Zoom

    In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You'll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

    $180
  • Thu 20
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    Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

    November 20, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Recurring

    Facilitator: Susan Comninos

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: creative writing, folklore, Jewish wisdom, Poetry

    Zoom

    In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You'll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

    $180
  • February 2026

  • Sun 15

    Drawing from Torah: A Generative Jewish Poetry Workshop

    February 15 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST

    Facilitator: Dr. Eve Grubin

    Program Type: Event, Free

    Topic: creative writing, Poetry, Torah

    Zoom

    Discover how poets transform Jewish texts into powerful poems—and create your own in this generative workshop inspired by Torah and tradition.

    Free
  • Tue 24
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    Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom

    February 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

    Facilitator: Tzivia Gover

    Program Type: Event, Free

    Topic: creative writing, creativity, Jewish spirituality, Jewish texts, Poetry, Sarah and Haga

    Zoom

    We invite you to sample our upcoming Immersion, Sarah and Hagar: Uncovering Feminine Strength and Wisdom
    in community. Join poet Tzivia for an interactive conversation on Sarah, Hagar, and feminine wisdom, followed by a creative writing prompt and time for sharing what we uncover.

    Free
  • Thu 26
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    Purim & the Poetry of Resistance

    February 26 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST

    Facilitator: Anna Goodman Herrick

    Program Type: Event

    Topic: Esther, Jewish joy, Poetry, Purim, Social Justice

    Zoom

    Prepare for Purim through poetry, imagination, and sacred play. In this generative workshop, you’ll investigate, conjure, and write new poems inspired by ancestral wisdom and the Jewish texts of Purim—a holiday that invites both joy and holy mischief.

    $18
  • March 2026

  • Tue 17
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    Poems of Freedom: A Reading & Writing Experience

    March 17 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EDT

    Facilitator: Cathleen Cohen and Lynn Levin

    Program Type: Event, Free

    Topic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Passover, Poetry, Yetzirah

    Zoom

    Tuesday, March 17, 2026 8-9:30 p.m. EST Prepare for Passover—the festival of liberation—through poetry, reflection, and creative expression. Join Ritualwell and the Philly Yetzirah Regional Chapter for a special reading, sharing poems inspired by themes of freedom, liberation, and the Passover story. After the reading, you’ll be invited into a generative writing experience with a […]

  • April 2026

  • Thu 16

    Creative Containers: Writing With Poetic Forms

    April 16 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

    Facilitator: Susan Comninos

    Program Type: Immersions

    Topic: Jewish writing, Poetry

    Zoom

    Join poet and author Susan Comninos to explore the rich possibilities of using poetic forms as tools for cohesion and focus, as well as exploration, expression, and musicality.

    $180
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