Featuring:

• Renee Brachfeld

• Cindy Rivka Marshall: The Case Against the Wind

• Cherie Karo Schwartz: Voyages of My Bubie, a memoire

• Evelyn Goldfinger: The Short Long Road, a tale from Talmud

• Peninnah Schram: Wisdom for Sale, from Peninnah Schram’s anthology, Jewish Stories One Generation tells another

• Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb: Dov Noy Goes to Cochiti, a true story

• Maggidah Cassandra Sagan: Avram the Beard, an original tale: If your family stories were told in the mythic town of Chelm, what would they be?

• Joanie Calem: Og’s Journey - Og the giant is both famous and infamous. When he decides to go exploring after centuries of hiding out in a corner of the equator, he stirs up prejudice and fear. Quite unintentionally, he ends up teaching that often our fear of the unknown is entirely unnecessary.

• Rabbi Dan “Dante” Gordon: The Last Story - Following the journey theme from Lech L'cha, I offer my own adaptation of a Chasidic folk tale that some may recognize. I admit I took great liberties from the original, but this is how it spoke to me. When a colleague asked why I had changed the story so much, my honest response was "I only changed the story as much as the story changed me."

This event is part of the New Mexico Jewish Storytelling Festival. CLICK HERE for all information and registration.