Trisha Arlin                                                                   

12 Windsor Terrace, #1                                            trisha.arlin@gmail.com

Brooklyn, NY 11215                                                   https://triganza.blogspot.com/

718-788-1369                                                                  trishaarlin.com

Liturgist

PUBLICATIONS

• “PLACE YOURSELF: WORDS OF PRAYER AND INTENTION”, by Trisha Arlin, Art by Mike Cockrill, Foreword by Rabbi Jill Hammer, Dimus Parrhesia Press 2019
• FROM NARROW PLACES: LITURGY, POETRY AND ART OF THE PANDEMIC ERA, Bayit Liturgist Artists. Bayit and Ben Yehuda Press  2022
• Mourner’s Kaddish, in The Year of Mourning: A Jewish Journey, CCAR Press 2023
• Four Selected Pieces, Siddur Shirat Ha Lev, City Shul Prayerbook, Toronto 2021
•  “Ready And Prepared”, a guided meditation included in PROPHETIC VOICES: RENEWING AND REIMAGINING HAFTARAH, a resource for the Torah service during Shabbat and holidays, CCAR Press, due 2021
• “Elohai Neshama: Your Pure Soul” published as part of Reconstructing Judaism’s High Holiday online service 2020
• “A Prayer For Washing Your Hands During a Pandemic”, republished on Ritualwell, in a CCAR Liturgy handout, in The Forward, in many newsletters and in bathrooms and kitchens in synagogues, churches, senior centers, camps, JCCs, etc.  Reconstructing Judaism video here.
• “Hagar’s Prayer“, JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION, Issue  35.1, May 2019
• “All Our Grudges:  An Alternative Kol Nidrei” in upcoming SEDER TEFILLOT, FORMS OF PRAYER: PRAYERS FOR THE HIGH HOLYDAYS  9th Edition.  Published by The Movement for Reform Judaism, The Sternberg Centre for Judaism,
• “An Interesting Experiment:  This is The Ritual” in revision of B’CHOL LEVAVACHA, CCAR Press, 2020
• “There Is No Other:  Aleinu” in RENEW OUR HEARTS: A SIDDUR FOR SHABBAT DAY, Published by Bayit/Ben Yehuda Press, due 2022
• “Yizkor For the Ambivalent” in BESIDE STILL WATERS, A JOURNAL OF COMFORT AND RENEWAL, ed. Rachel Barenblatt,  Bayit/Ben Yehuda Press 2019
• “Emet: Truth – Established and Otherwise” in A POET’S SIDDUR, ed. Rick Lupert, Ain’t Got No Press, 2017
• “Choosing a Siddur In a Pluralistic Environment“, co-written with Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, in STUDIES IN JUDAISM AND PLURALISM, ed. Leonard Levin, Ben Yehuda Press 2016
• “Kavannah Before Shofar Blowing” in STUDIES IN JUDAISM AND PLURALISM, ed. Leonard Levin, Ben Yehuda Press 2016
• “We Eat First” Article co-written with Rabbi Ellen Lippmann in THE SACRED TABLE, edited by Mary L. Zamore, CCAR Press 2011

ONLINE

• TrishaArlin.com  
• Blog: Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention
• Bayit Liturgical Arts
• Trisha Arlin on RitualWell.org
• Featured Liturgist, Recustom.com (formerly Haggadot.com)
• Open Siddur Project, opensiddur.org
• YouTube

Residencies, Presentations and Programs:

• FOUNDING MEMBER, Bayit Liturgical Arts Working Group, 2020 – present
• PRESENTER, Ritualwell’s 20^th Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser, December 20, 2021
• PRESENTER, “Shavua Tov Live” Ritualwell.com, online  March 22, 2020
• TEACHER/LITURGIST, National Havurah Committee Winter Retreat  || December  2019
• ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, B’nai Harim, Pocono Pines, PA.   Weekend Retreat, June 2019
• LITURGIST, Yom Kippur Shabbaton with Kohenet Annie Matan Toronto, Canada || September 2017
• LITURGIST, liturgy and kavannot Kolot Chayeinu, Brooklyn, NY || 2009 – present
• SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE, Beth Israel-West Temple, Cleveland, OH || February 2017
• LITURGIST-IN-RESIDENCE, National Havurah Committee Summer Institute, July 2014
• LITURGIST, Selichot liturgy,  Sinai Free Synagogue, Mount Vernon, NY || 2015
• SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE, Congregation Adath Shalom, Morris Plains, NJ || July 2014

Teacher

Zoom

• Upcoming:
• The Access Code:  Naming God In the Peticha, Ritualwell, May 2023
• Writing Liturgy For Prayer Leaders, Ritualwell, May – June 2023
• Help: Getting and Giving, private workshops, April – May 2023
• Writing Kaddish, private workshops, January – April 2023
• The 13 Petitionary Prayers, private workshop, March – to May 2022
• Liturgy Writing For Prayer Leaders,  private workshop,  January  2022 – May 2022
• The Soul’s Transit: 24 Hours of Neshama – workshop on Bedtime Shema, Modeh Ani and Elohai Neshama for Ritualwell  – January 2022
• Holy Conversation: The Kavannot of the Shabbat Amidah: Ritualwell   Jan – Feb  2022
• An Alternate Purim, writing workshops and editng script, Temple Beth Israel – The West, Cleveland OH Feb – March 2022
  • Writing Hanukkah Kavannot, private class, November 2021
  • Writing Prayers for Animals For Rosh Hodesh Elul – Kolot Chayeinu July 2021
  •  Shmita And Rosh Hashanah, Congregation Bereith Sholom, Troy NY  August 2021
  • 3 Elul Workshops – Being Forgiven, Forgiving Others, Rosh Hodesh Elul:  New Year For the Domesticated Animals  on going, July 2021
  • Teacher/Editor/Consultant, for Women’s Seder, Temple Beth Israel, Cleveland OH, February – April 2021 R. Enid Lader
  • Prayer Writing, February – March 2021, Temple Israel, Vestal NY, R. Geoffrey Brown
  • Book Club discussions of PLACE YOURSELF,  3 sessions, Congregation B’nai Israel, Basking Ridge NJ, February 2021 R. Robert Green
  • Writing Rosh Hashanah Liturgy, Custom & Craft (haggadot.com) Septemer 14, 2020
  • Prayer Writing, Congregation Kol HaNeshema, Sarasota, FL, Sept. 2020 R. Jennifer Singer
  • Prayer Writing: Temple Isaiah of Great Neck, NY August 20, 2020, Rabbi Jerry Blum
  • Prayer Writing for Elul, Rutland Jewish Center , Rutland VT August 20, 2020,

R. Ellie Shemtov

• Prayer Writing Elul and Rosh Hashana, Congregation Ner Shalom, VA 2020  R. E. Goldstein
  • Kedusha: Praying on Holy Ground & Preparing For Sinai”   Seven Writing Workshops For The Omer“  Online.  Ritualwell.org  May 16, 2020
  • Jewish Prayer Writing Workshop.   Haggadot.com     April 5, 2020

Teaching In Person

• Upcoming:  Writing Kaddish and the Four Worlds, Aleph Kallel July 2023
• Tutor to individual adult students, on the service and the liturgy || 2017 – present
• Tutor to conversion students  || 2016, 2017
• National Havurah Committee Winter Retreat, “Writing New Liturgy” December 2019
• “Writing Personal Prayer”, Kolot Chayeinu, May 2019
•  “Kriat Sh’ma Rubric Prayers”, Kolot Chayeinu, January – February 2019
• “High Holyday Liturgy” class, Kolot Chayeinu, August – September 2018
• “Writing Personal Prayer” Workshops ||  2013 – present

LimmudNY, National Havurah Committee Summer Institute, and Shavuot Across Brooklyn, numerous synagogues around the country.

• Writing Personal Prayer workshop for Kolot Chayeinu Children’s Learning Program

Education

• Academy of Jewish Religion, Rabbinic Student, 2012 – 2018, part-time
• Columbia University, Master of Fine Arts in Film (Screenwriting) || 1997
• Antioch College, Bachelor of Arts in Theater || 1975

• Hartman LimmudNY Fellowship                                                      || February – April 2016
• Certificate in Bibliodrama, Peter Pitzele                                            || January 2015
• Conservative Yeshiva, Jerusalem, Summer Session                       || July 2013
• University of Haifa Hebrew Intensive Ulpan                                  || August 2013
• Aleph Davennen Leadership Training Institute 6 (DLTI)                || 2010 – 2012
• Drisha Institute Arts Fellow, Yesidot Program                              || 2009 – 2010
• Pardes Summer Session, Jerusalem                                                   || July-August 2008
• Writing New Midrashim with Alicia Ostriker                                 || 1999

Honors

• Liturgist-In-Residence, NHC Summer Institute, || 2014
• AJR Rabbi Herschel Matt Creative Liturgy Award, || 2014
• AJR Chana Timoner Creative Liturgy Award, || 2013
• Drisha Arts Fellow || 2009-10
• Screenwriting Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts, || 1993
• Aleen & Jacque Leslie Playwriting Award, for “Stand Still”  1981