Scholar-in-Residence, Readings and Workshops
In my own life as a writer, teacher, community activist and Jewish woman, I have
discovered connections between spiritual exploration, creativity, passion for Jewish life,
feminism, social justice work and making the family a true source of nourishment in the
modern world. It is these passions and concerns that I bring to my teaching, helping
others to explore their own creativity, religious search, communal involvement and sense
of wonder at our seemingly ordinary everyday existence.
I enjoy using several presentational formats and therefore I've offered below a kind of
"Chinese menu" from which communities may choose. I like it best when I am able to
come for a weekend or for a few days to offer several different kinds of sessions on
several different topics.
Readings:
~The Journey of a Spiritual Life
~A Jewish Feminist Journey
~The Spirituality of Everyday Life
Talks:
~Reaching Out to the Other: Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue
~How We Grow a Spiritual Life: Stages of Spiritual Development
~Living Tikkun Olam: Dialogue on the West Bank, Poetry in Belarus, Advocacy on the
Upper West Side
Interactive Study Workshops (Beit Midrash)*:
~The Ability to See: Encountering Spiritual Moments in Everyday Life
~Our Families, Ourselves
~Faith and Doubt: How We Talk to God
~Making Shabbos, the Ancient Tradition of Jewish Performance Art
~The Process of Political Awakening
~Jewish Identity, Jewish Ethics
~Class Matters: Spirituality and the Politics of Class
*In Interactive Study Workshops (Beit Midrash) I select particular poems or prose pieces
of mine and use these texts in conjunction with study questions I have generated to help
participants focus on themes to be explored. Participants study together in pairs or small
groups and then we come together for a plenary conversation about the themes.
Writing Workshops:
~Creating Spiritual Autobiography
~Preparing for Awe: High Holiday Warm-Ups and Stretches
~Writing Our Way to the Seder Table
I am available for readings, facilitating writing workshops and as a lecturer or scholar-in-residence. To arrange for me to come to your community or your conference,
you may contact me by email: [email protected]
If your
community is interested in arranging for rights to do a performance or reading of one of my plays, you may also use the above email address.
Some of the places at which I have been scholar-in-residence or guest lecturer:
United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York
Leventhal-Sidman JCC of Newton Centre, MA
Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis
Project Kesher�s Women�s Seminar in Belarus
Pardes Institute, Jerusalem
Lehrhaus Program of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Union of American Hebrew Congregations Kallah
Yale University
University of Chicago
Ma�yan, the Jewish Women�s Project of the Upper West Side
Jewish Women�s Resource Center/National Council of Jewish Women
Congregation Beth El of Sudbury Valley, MA
Congregation Beth Am, Palo Alto, CA
Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles
New Israel Fund, Women�s Voices
Ramah Family Institute
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Beit Shmuel Cultural Center, Jerusalem
Jewish Women�s Archive/Hadassah Boston
Schusterman Hillel International Professional Conference
Elat Chayyim Retreat Center
National Havurah Institute
Brandeis Collegiate Institute, CA
Princeton University
Mt. Holyoke College
Stanford University
Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley, MA
New England Association of Reform Rabbis
Congregation Beth Ha�Am, South Portland, ME
Rabbinical Assembly Conference
Mercaz Hamagshemim Hadassah, Jerusalem
Central Conference of American Rabbis
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