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(JTA) — For Lyssa Jaye, throwing the wood chips into the Tuolumne River felt in many ways familiar to the tashlich ritual performed on Rosh Hashanah. But rather than casting

Challenged to come up with a religious innovation Deborah Newbrun remembers what was lacking when she divorced, adapting existing practices to help people with healing and closure

“One person ‘tashliched’ their wedding ring into the river,” Rabbi Deborah Newbrun recalled about the first “Divorce & Discovery: A Jewish Healing Retreat.”

For Lyssa Jaye, divorce was hard to cope with, so she was taking part in Divorce & Discovery: A Jewish Healing Retreat.