By Limor Shiponi Officially, I’m going on a sabbatical. Personally, I’m giving myself time for exploration, experimentation and a good rest: seafaring, sports, storytelling, sightseeing, and some sweat folly with my grandchild. Adieu business, I’ll be back in a year.
By Limor Shiponi One of the groups I work with is a storytelling peers group, looking into Jewish texts as a source of inspiration. After doing some Limmud (learning) each of us goes off exploring, composing, reading, thinking, trying to come up with tales, new stories, interpretations, and create something new. Limmud in the Jewish …
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By Limor Shiponi “My father says that in ten years from now, we won’t have to talk anymore. Using special technologies, we’ll just have to think and things will happen.” Coming from a 14 years old gifted teenager, who said it during a storytelling session for young writers. All the other participants, aged 14 and …
By Limor Shiponi Just back from a storytelling training session with something I want to share: When training, participants expect me to give them feedback, which I do. Often I can sense they are flabbergasted, “how does she know how to hit the nail on its head?” while on other occasions they’ll be wondering, “that’s …
By Limor Shiponi “When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren’t told or books weren’t written, humans would live like the beasts, only for the day. Reb Zebulun said, “Today we live, but by tomorrow today will be a story. The whole …