In this session, we will explore how Jewishness and queerness can help us solve mysteries and how fiction writing and digging into our imaginations can be medicine in hard times. Part book talk, part writing workshop, part text study, get ready to do some of your own writing as we address our own big questions and think together about how dreaming up new possibilities through writing can help us make sense of them.

Taught by Rachel Sharona Lewis, the author of the Rabbi Vivian mystery series. Her second novel The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City was recently released, following her debut The Rabbi Who Prayed with Fire. The series was inspired by Harry Kemelman's Rabbi David Small mysteries from the 1960s and 1970s, and centers on a young, queer, female rabbi. Like Kemelman's books, these engage questions of significance within our contemporary American Jewish community.