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And She Laughed: A Kitchen Ritual for Healing from Miscarriage

A challah-baking ritual to encourage joy and laughter for a group of women healing from miscarriage

Confessional to the Women We’ve Failed

"For all of our failures to protect you, our daughters, mothers, partners and friends"

Writer, Educator, Disability Activist to Lead Ritualwell, Leading Source of Creative Jewish Expression and Writer's Community

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer was recently named Ritualwell’s director of virtual content and program, a position she considers her dream job. In this role, she can weave together the multiple strands of her life: her passion for creativity and the arts, her focus on spirituality and writing, her experience in editing and mentoring writers, her commitment to children and families, and making Jewish community and experience accessible to all.

Prayer for Those Yearning for a Child

"We pray that those yearning to conceive, carry, foster or adopt will lead to a joyful outcome"

New Online Community for Jewish Poets and Liturgists Aims to Produce “Ripple” Effect

For 20 years, Ritualwell has served as a pioneering resource for original Jewish liturgy and rituals, along the way nurturing an informal network of liturgists, poets and ritual innovators. Now, it has launched ADVOT @ Ritualwell, a formal online community offering unprecedented support and empowerment to writers who are imagining new ways to mark life’s most salient moments in a Jewish context.

Sacred Screaming

On the absence of ritual at the birth of daughters, with suggestions for new rituals for conception, pregnancy, and childbirth

The Other Side of the Rain: At a Cemetery in the Galilee

Will I be able to do enough inner work to accept all the violent, human-inflicted death around me now? Should that even be my goal?

Prayer After Loss of Pregnancy or Stillbirth

Praying for healing after the devastating loss of a pregnancy

Omer Day 15: Love of Compassion

"Colliding words of softness and strength..."

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

The Reconstructionist Network