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An Evening of Stories by Jewish Women Storytellers
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Enjoy an evening of stories drawing on how people are connected through the generations, featuring tellers Cassandra Sagan, Gail Pasternack, Donna Erbs, and you.
Cassandra Sagan has devoted her life to helping others access their creative brilliance. A twice-ordained Maggid, Jewish storyteller in the lineage of Reb Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, and ultimately the Baal Shem Tov, she is a consummate cultural creative: educator, poet, singer/songwriter, visual artist, an InterPlay leader, creator of Moving Midrash, an embodied Torah study practice, and a regular Joy Gevalt. She has been published in various anthologies and journals and taught in classrooms, synagogues, libraries, and retreat centers for most of her life. Cassandra weaves her tales with humor and magical realism while making ancestral tikkunim (repairs) through her characters and storylines.
Gail Pasternack is a writer, educator, and ordained maggidah (Jewish storyteller). Her writing has appeared in Jewish Fiction.net, Wanderlust Journal, and several anthologies. As a founding member of the Jewish Women’s Storytelling Collective, she is an editor of their anthology, Rooster Tales and Other Stories, which will be published in 2025. Since 2015, Gail has served on the Board of Directors of Willamette Writers and led the organization as its president for five years. A native New Yorker, Gail and her husband now reside in Portland, Oregon, where she enjoys drinking cocktails, listening to live jazz, and dancing Argentine tango.
Donna Erbs is an ordained maggidah, a Jewish storyteller and teacher. Her family would simply consider her the next generation in a showbiz line, but for her, it is a holy calling. After a lifetime devoted to Jewish learning and practice and a career in public health and health education, Donna decided that her retirement should include large quantities of making trouble in the service of humanity. Donna enjoys her husband and two grown children, her amazing grandchild, traveling, and being a Jewish mother to anyone who needs one.
Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The readings will start at 7 p.m.