Ritualwell creates a vibrant community through online learning classes and events. All are welcomed into our supportive, safe learning space. You will join people from diverse Jewish backgrounds, eager to explore Jewish ritual, creativity, writing and spirituality.
There are multiple ways to learn with us:
- FREE standalone sessions with leading Jewish educators and writers;
- Ritualwell Immersions, 4- or 6-week online, in real time classes for deep engagement;
- ADVOT, a creative community of Jewish ritual innovators and writers who meet regularly to share and support each other’s work.
ADVOT is Ritualwell’s online community of Jewish writers, poets, liturgists and ritual creators. Enjoy multiple Ritualwell Immersions throughout the year. Access our weekly online writing space, hevruta pairings, online retreats, an anthology, & more!
Browse our many other Ritualwell programs below!
Event Calendar
Events
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Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic:
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
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Writing Memoir from Photos
Facilitator: Lisa Grunberger
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: creative writing, Jewish community, Memoir, writing workshop
In this three-week workshop, Lisa Grinberger invites participants to use personal photographs as gentle entry points into memoir writing, exploring both joyful and painful memories. Through prompts, discussion, and supportive sharing, writers will create short “micro-memoirs” that honor the stories held within images.
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Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic:
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
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Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic:
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
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A Special Omer Gathering: Finding Purpose in Challenging Times
Facilitator:
Program Type: Event
ZoomTopic: Counting the Omer, Jewish spirituality, Omer, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Support Ritualwell’s Omer campaign and join a seven-week journey of teachings, creative prompts, and reflection exploring the question “What is mine to offer?” Rooted in the wisdom of the sefirot, this experience culminates in a gathering with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg to help ground your purpose in action.
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Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic:
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
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Holding Each Other
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Free
ZoomTopic:
Come together with the Ritualwell community every Monday for "Holding Each Other," a 15-minute online minyan. Join us to enhance your spiritual resilience and provide support to others in need of strength.
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Tree of Life: A Mind‑Body‑Spirit Practice
Facilitator: Rabbi Tsurah August
Program Type: Event
ZoomTopic: Jewish spirituality, movement, somatic pratice
This Hanukkah, join us for a unique exploration of ritual, awareness, movement and light. Rabbi Tsurah August, a teacher rooted in somatic practice, mindfulness and Jewish mystical tradition, invites us into Embodying the Light — a session to awaken our bodies, our hearts and our spiritual vision.
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Sacred Words for a Fragile Democracy: A Jewish Creative Writing Lab
Facilitator: Dr. Joelllyn Zollman and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: #America250, #July4th2026, America 250, creative writing, democracry, Jewish American History, Jewish American poets, justice, Poetry, Semiquincentennial, writing prompts
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this special series invites you to explore questions of democracy, justice, and belonging through Jewish creative practice. Guided by the voices of Jewish American poets and your own lived experience, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, write, and shape original prayers and poems. Participants also have the option to publish and share their work, bringing their voices into a broader public conversation.
$54 -
Sacred Words for a Fragile Democracy: A Jewish Creative Writing Lab
Facilitator: Dr. Joelllyn Zollman and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: #America250, #July4th2026, America 250, creative writing, democracry, Jewish American History, Jewish American poets, justice, Poetry, Semiquincentennial, writing prompts
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this special series invites you to explore questions of democracy, justice, and belonging through Jewish creative practice. Guided by the voices of Jewish American poets and your own lived experience, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, write, and shape original prayers and poems. Participants also have the option to publish and share their work, bringing their voices into a broader public conversation.
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Advot End-of-Year Celebration and Poetry Reading
Facilitator: Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: ADVOT, Event, Free
ZoomTopic: creative writing, Jewish spirituality, Jewish writers, Poetry
Join us to celebrate the contributions of our Advot@Ritualwell members and the unveiling of our fifth anthology showcasing their creations. Advot@Ritualwell serves as an online community for Jewish writers to learn, connect, and collaborate.
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Sacred Words for a Fragile Democracy: A Jewish Creative Writing Lab
Facilitator: Dr. Joelllyn Zollman and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Program Type: Immersions
ZoomTopic: #America250, #July4th2026, America 250, creative writing, democracry, Jewish American History, Jewish American poets, justice, Poetry, Semiquincentennial, writing prompts
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this special series invites you to explore questions of democracy, justice, and belonging through Jewish creative practice. Guided by the voices of Jewish American poets and your own lived experience, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, write, and shape original prayers and poems. Participants also have the option to publish and share their work, bringing their voices into a broader public conversation.
$54
We seek to be a fully inclusive community.
People of all backgrounds, ages, genders, identities and levels of Jewish knowledge and creative practice are warmly welcome to our programs. We encourage writers who identify as BIJOC (Black Indigenous Jews of Color), Mizrahi/Sephardi, LGBTQ+, interfaith, low-income and disabled to join us.
Please note that this year we have increased our prices in order to increase the rate we pay our faculty. We continue to offer an array of free programming to be accessible to all. If you have financial need or any questions, please reach out to us at ritualwell@reconstructingjudaism.org.
All our programs take place online. All learning sessions are recorded and made available to registrants. For up-to-date announcements on our programming, please subscribe to our newsletter.
