Big News! Poet, storyteller, and JSC member Brian Rohr has released his debut full-length book, 

Shaken to My Bones: A Poetic Midrash on the Torah, published by Ben Yehuda Press as part of their Jewish Poetry Project series. 

From the back: With Shaken to My Bones, Brian Rohr has crafted an astonishing set of parsha poems, a multilayered midrash, questioning the text, challenging God, while still embracing love and the earth. As a maggid, a storyteller in the finest sense of the Jewish tradition, he weaves together elements of Torah into a new tapestry, creating a personal, ancient yet contemporary and magical work.

Back cover reviews/blurbs are from Poet Baruch November, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, and Rabbi Jill Hammer.

More at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/106558/9781963475401

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ZfuQdq

Just heard....still time to sign up/view

 

New Mexico Jewish
Storytelling Festival 2023
Attend In Person and/or on Zoom
November 3th, 4th, and 5th

Schedule | Purchase Tickets | Volunteer | Guest Bios

Contact and Zoom Help -
Call (505) 343-8227 or send an email to nmjewishstorytelling@gmail.com

More Stories - More Workshops!
And more opportunities to bask in the world of Jewish story.

Featuring:

• Oro Anahory-Librowicz - Our first international storyteller who will be joining us virtually from Montreal. She was named StorySave Teller of 2022 by Storytellers of Canada and has received a medal from the King of Spain for her work in Sephardic studies.

• Mark Binder - storyteller and author, who will be zooming in from Rhode Island

• Gerald Fierst - from New Jersey, Gerald worked closely with the noted Holocaust historian, Dr. Yaffa Ellach, and her award winning collection Tales of the Holocaust which he adapted into the musical play Dancing with Miracles.

• Rabbi Lynn Gotleib

• Peninnah Schram will be sharing her stories from New York.

But there is so much more!

Our hybrid festival will be attended live by storytellers who are traveling from Colorado, Georgia, Oregon, California and more, making Albuquerque the Jewish storytelling destination! There will be live-streamed workshops and performances for the entire weekend of our “Storyteller’s Shabbaton.” Friday night and Saturday morning services are free to all, as is our Sunday morning children/family program. This year, we are featuring our first Teen Telling. To attend the rest of the Festival, you’ll need a ticket. If you are lucky enough to come in person, join us for a Mid-Eastern feast after Saturday’s service.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Festival, November 3-5, 2023. You will receive the zoom links once you purchase your tickets. Click here to purchase tickets

Enjoy performances, stories, and workshops with tover 20 storytellers!

For more information, please contact
nmjewishstorytelling@gmail.com

Calling All Jewish Storytellers...respond to nmjewishstorytelling@gmail.com

 

Susan Stone Announces an upcoming program June 15 in Morton Grove Illinois! ......Questions: Momteller@yahoo.com

 

Date & Time

Jun 15, 2023 03:00 PM    

As an award winning professional storyteller, Susan Stone has been captivating audiences for over 30 years. Jewish tales from Midrash, folklore and Hasidic sources performed with grace, Yiddishkeit, and  humor, transport her listeners to experience the wealth of, wisdom and pathos in oral tradition. Personal narratives are interwoven throughout, illuminating the tales for her listeners.

Cindy Rivka Marshall will be featured three times at the WOMEN'S STORYTELLING FESTIVAL! (In person and virtual) Check it out!

 

Even If you're not in NYC March 19th at 3pm, you can still be involved...CHECK IT OUT! (I just ordered my copies w/ discount)

 

                                             

 

Reviews of Peninnah's World just keep on coming in! Read it here!

 NON­FIC­TION

Penin­nah’s World: A Jew­ish Life in Stories 

Caren Schnur Neile

• Review

By 

Reni­ta Last

 – September 7, 2022

Penin­nah Pearl Schram is an acclaimed Jew­ish sto­ry­teller. Writ­ten by a schol­ar for whom Schram served as a doc­tor­al dis­ser­ta­tion com­mit­tee mem­ber, this autho­rized biog­ra­phy art­ful­ly cap­tures Schram’s jour­ney in a series of chap­ters — each of which reads like a com­plete story.

Schram (née Man­ches­ter) was born in 1934 to immi­grant par­ents and spent her ear­ly years in the coastal city of New Lon­don, Con­necti­cut. Her father was a Jew­ish vocal­ist (chaz­zan) who also per­formed cir­cum­ci­sions and rit­u­al slaugh­ters, while her moth­er was an indus­tri­ous busi­ness­woman. They show­ered her with sto­ries, music, wis­dom, and love. She learned moral­i­ty, empa­thy, and strength of char­ac­ter from oft-repeat­ed folk­tales and bib­li­cal sto­ries. An intel­li­gent and resource­ful young­ster, she devel­oped a love of the­ater and speech in school and col­lege. She met aca­d­e­m­ic and social suc­cess and was ever eager for new expe­ri­ences and opportunities.

The nar­ra­tive fol­lows Schram through engag­ing anec­dotes and can­did accounts as she attends col­lege, trav­els, mar­ries, and has chil­dren. It tracks how she honed her the­atri­cal skills, set­tled into NYC domes­tic­i­ty, and then lost her hus­band Irv­ing at a young age. After his death, the sin­gle par­ent of two began teach­ing at Iona Col­lege. Through a serendip­i­tous meet­ing at a wed­ding she reluc­tant­ly attends, the dean at Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty offers her a posi­tion. She rejects it, but a year lat­er accepts his offer of a pro­fes­sor­ship at Stern Col­lege for Women. Her pas­sion for per­for­mance and immer­sion in Jew­ish tra­di­tions allows her to devel­op the first col­lege course in Jew­ish Storytelling.

Schram has become a trail­blaz­er in Jew­ish folk­lore. She read and taped sto­ries for the Jew­ish Braille Insti­tute; imple­ment­ed a sto­ry­telling pro­gram for chil­dren at the 92nd Street Y; broad­cast­ed over the Jew­ish radio sta­tion WEVD; and brought her art­form to the Jew­ish Muse­um. Among her oth­er accom­plish­ments, she orga­nized the Jew­ish Sto­ry­telling Cen­ter (CAJE), appeared at Nation­al Sto­ry­telling Fes­ti­vals, and authored many books and antholo­gies. Her tal­ent and per­son­al­i­ty bring her acco­lades, numer­ous awards, and recog­ni­tion as the cen­tral fig­ure respon­si­ble for the reemer­gence of Jew­ish sto­ry­telling. What’s more, she counts Elie Wiesel, Isaac Bashe­vis Singer, and oth­er Jew­ish lumi­nar­ies in her acquired cir­cle as her friends, men­tors, and colleagues.

Caren Schnur Neile has strung Schram’s sto­ries with poet­ic lan­guage and rel­ished exam­ples of Jew­ish sto­ries — fit­ting, con­sid­er­ing the sto­ry­teller Schram her­self is.

Reni­ta Last is a mem­ber of the Nas­sau Region of Hadassah’s Exec­u­tive Board. She has coor­di­nat­ed the Film Forum Series for the Region and served as Pro­gram­ming and Health Coor­di­na­tors and as a mem­ber of the Advo­ca­cy Committee.

She has vol­un­teered as a docent at the Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al and Tol­er­ance Cen­ter of Nas­sau Coun­ty teach­ing the all- impor­tant lessons of the Holo­caust and tol­er­ance. A retired teacher of the Gift­ed and Tal­ent­ed, she loves par­tic­i­pat­ing in book clubs and writ­ing projects.