We had a wonderful event on Sunday 7th June in London. A relaxed family-friendly afternoon of Jewish storytelling exploring birth, matrescence, and reproductive life cycles. Part of Jewish Culture Month, this event featured diverse voices through discussion, poetry, and song, celebrating cultural and spiritual rites of passage in British Jewish life.

Programme included:

• Rabbinical perspectives from Rabbi Miriam Berger, introducing Wellspring - a space to mark transition or change - joyful or mournful - and find solace, self-care and some peace.

• Live participatory drawing with Talmudic Drawing Studio

• Song and ritual-making with Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid of Yelala

• Creative journaling with Maternal Journal

• Be Fruitful - the new book on Jewish birth by Dr B.J. Woodstein

• Hope and Healing through Song with Judith Silver

• Poetry by Chloe Yale Pinto & Sharon Kanolik

• Jewish Books for sale on birth and life cycles