Jessica Schechter is an award-winning director, actor, performer, and producer in New York City. She has an MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School, and a Bachelor’s degree in Educational Theatre from NYU. Jessica is a certified theatre teacher in New York State and has …
Yona Lavie is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer, and choreographer from Queens, NY. Having artistic family roots, Yona started out as a visual artist before she decided to pursue dance at age 16. After completing an associate degree in dance from Queensborough Community College, Yona transferred …
AYALA has been singing since before she could talk, and performing on stage for as long as she can remember! She studied at New York Voice Teacher Training and has been running her private vocal studio ever since. She also teaches group voice lessons and has led multiple choirs in NYC’s Jewish community. She is confident that singing is a tool everyone can use to build more joy and confidence into their life. AYALA writes and records her own original music, can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and Youtube. She is a sought-after session vocalist who’s voice is featured on other artists’s music as well. When she is not singing or teaching voice, she can be found filming educational videos about faith on her Youtube channel to inspire others!
I have a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from California State University, Sacramento, and I’m a Certified Vocal Coach through Modern Vocal Training. I’ve also studied in the Institute of Vocal Advancement program where I achieved a Level 1 Certificate. I’m committed to helping singers develop …
Chaya Bracha is an accomplished speaker, singer songwriter and educator and has been singing professionally for over 15 years. She is a published author and has won numerous awards and scholarships for her poetry and writing. She has composed more than fifty original songs and performed …
Now Partner Emeritus of Schaffer Consulting, Ron is a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders across industries- with a current focus on nonprofits, startups, and healthcare. He has helped leading organizations achieve dramatic performance improvements while also helping CEOs and senior executives to strengthen their leadership capacity. Ron collaborates with staff groups and internal consultants to improve the bottom-line impact of their professional contributions. Ron’s clients value his pragmatic approach and insight into their challenges, as well as his ability to help them navigate and overcome the political obstacles that so often threaten success.
He is a leading voice on transformation, acquisition integration, and simplification. The author/co-author of over 100 articles and six books, Ron blends thought leadership with extensive experiences helping organizations achieve results.
Ron’s clients have included many of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as premier financial, governmental, and non-profit organizations such as J.P Morgan Chase, Cisco Systems, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Pfizer, Merck, The World Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, ArvinMeritor Automotive, Zurich Financial Services, ConAgra Foods, Applied Materials, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, Thomson Reuters, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Stanford University Hospital.
Ron was part of the original team that collaborated with then-CEO Jack Welch to develop GE’s Work-Out approach for creating a faster, simpler, and more nimble organization. The widely documented results constituted one of the largest and most successful corporate transformations in history. After that, Ron helped lead Schaffer Consulting’s efforts to adapt and enhance the WorkOut methodology and apply it to other organizations. He is the co-author (with Dave Ulrich and Steve Kerr) of The GE Work-Out (McGraw-Hill, 2002).
Ron writes extensively on organizational change. In addition to over 200 digital posts for HBR, seven of his full-length pieces have appeared in the Harvard Business Review magazine including Rebounding from Career Setbacks, Simplicity-Minded Management, Making the Deal Real: How GE Capital Integrates Acquisitions, The Merger Dividend, and Why Good Projects Fail Anyway. His articles also have appeared in the National Productivity Review, the Human Resource Management Journal, Management Review, Leader to Leader, Chief Executive, and leading newspapers. In addition to The GE Work-Out, his books include Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done, published by Harvard Business Press in 2010; Rapid Results! (co-authored with Robert H. Schaffer and other members of the firm) published by Jossey-Bass in 2005; and The Boundaryless Organization (co-authored with Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr) which was published by Jossey-Bass in 1995, and was named one of the best business books of that year. The book was reissued in soft cover along with The Boundaryless Organization Field Guide in 1999. A revised second edition was published in 2002.
Ron’s latest book is the HBR Leader’s Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level, published by the Harvard Business Review Press in 2019.
Ron lectures and conducts seminars on organizational transformation, acquisition integration, and simplification around the world. He has been on the faculty of executive education programs at major universities including Stanford Business School, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, and the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve. In 2012, Ron held an appointment as “executive-in-residence” at the Haas Business School of UC Berkeley where he focused on process innovation and simplification.
Ron received his BA from Wesleyan University, his EdM from Harvard University, and his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, where he has also held several teaching assignments.
Mark Finkel has been deeply involved in early stage entrepreneurial enterprises for the past 25 years. Over that time, Mark has worked as an executive or active board member of numerous high-growth technology companies on the East Coast, in Silicon Valley, and in Israel. Mark …
Elie is a professional dance instructor who has years of experience. As a past dancer in the secular world, she has strong technical dance training and has performed at venues as large as Madison Square Garden. Elie synthesizes her talent in dancing and passion for …
During her eighteen years as a member of New York City Ballet, Ms. Abergel performed in numerous works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She originated roles in Robbins’s West Side Story Suite; in Peter Martins’s Chichester Psalms, Harmonielehre, Symphonic Dances, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Romeo+Juliet; and in Christopher Wheeldon’s Carnival of the Animals, Variations Serieuses, and An American in Paris.
Ms. Abergel performed featured and soloist roles in a number of works by George Balanchine, including The Nutcracker®, Firebird, Coppélia, Swan Lake, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet.
Upon retiring from performing in 2009, Ms. Abergel joined SAB’s faculty and became NYCB’s Assistant Children’s Ballet Master. She was named Children’s Ballet Master at New York City Ballet in 2012. In her position with the Company, Ms. Abergel casts and rehearses children from SAB in all NYCB productions featuring roles for children, including George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, The Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Swan Lake and Coppélia.
Ms. Abergel pursued college studies while a member of New York City Ballet and graduated summa cum laude in 2001 with a B.A. in English from Fordham University.
Hailing from the Bronx, Anna began dancing at the age of 3 and was extremely disappointed in the creative dance class, as it did not have enough rules and was too fluffy for her taste. Finally, at the age of 6 she was able to …
Born in Israel and raised in Arizona, Shaked has been dancing since she was 3 years old and has never stopped. After becoming baalat teshuva in her first year of college in Arizona and finishing her degree in education for the arts, she made aliyah …
Rhonda Kaufman Malkin is a 1996 honors graduate of Woodbridge High School. During her senior year, Rhonda was the first student from WHS to “crack Disney” and win the Outstanding Dancer Award for the Disneyland Creativity Challenge, a competition open to Orange County performing arts students. Her 13 years of dance training at Irvine Dance Academy lead to a 17-year professional dance career in Los Angeles and New York City. While attending UCLA as a Sociology major, Rhonda performed as a Los Angeles Laker Girl for 3 years and received a championship ring for the 2000 inaugural season at Staples Center. After graduating UCLA in 2000, she attended seminary at Neve Yerushalayim and started upon her journey into Orthodox Jewish life. She continued dancing professionally, teaching dance, and choreography on the side while being a Radio City Music Hall Rockette for 12 years performing in multiple cities across America as well as Radio City Music Hall in the “Christmas Spectacular.” Rhonda was a Rockette Swing (memorizing all 36 Rockette dance tracks) for 7 of those years.
Some of Rhonda’s other credits include: “The Producers: The Movie Musical” directed & choreographed by Susan Stroman and dancing with Matthew Broderick, The Academy Awards choreographed by Kenny Ortega and dancing with the late Robin Williams, The MTV VMA’s performing with Panic at the Disco, MTV Movie Awards choreographed by Marguerite Derricks and dancing with Mike Myers, the film “Beautiful” directed by Sally Field and dancing with Minnie Driver, national commercials for Sears, Macy’s, CBS, and Westfield Shopping Towns, multiple live stage shows for Disney’s El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood and Hyperion Theatre at Disney’s California Adventure Park, The Today Show with Katie Couric, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Martha Stewart, Regis and Kelly, Suddenly Susan with Brooke Shields, Mad TV, and a special performance in the East Wing at the White House for President Obama and the First Lady.
Rhonda loves seeing her students achieve success in the world of dance and is proud to have “bragging rights” where countless students have gone on to perform on Broadway, National tours, Cirque du Soliel, as Radio City Rockettes, NBA dance teams, JUBILLEE! in Las Vegas, Beyonce music videos, and international cruise ship shows.
In between NYC performances, Rhonda developed her FUSION EXERCISE fitness method over a 6-year period and has trained celebrities including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Karlie Kloss. In May 2014, she was featured in SHAPE magazine and SHAPE.com with Ivanka.
Rhonda’s choreography talents lead her to choreographing for numerous live stage and livestream productions in NYC for Jewish artists Bracha Jaffe and Devorah Schwartz. She was Head Choreographer for Camp Maor for 8 years, recently taught at the prestigious FAME school—La Guardia High School of the Arts, and Manhattan High School.
As a Professional Dance Coach, she is honored to mention that 59 of her students have become Radio City Rockettes! This is Rhonda’s 30th year as a dance educator, and she is so grateful to all of you for your love and support!
Rachel Factor is recognized worldwide as an inspirational Jewish performer and educator. Over thirty thousand women worldwide, young and old, religious and non-religious, Jews and non-Jews, have enthusiastically attended Rachel’s performances worldwide. Her first acclaimed one-woman show, J.A.P., chronicles her journey through Hawaii, Los Angeles and …
A writer and editor for several decades, Julie Rothschild Levi decided to swap out her serious roles for some shtick. She is now a professional comic content creator on social media (@officiallyjulie_comedy), in the process of writing her own one-woman show, and has extensive experience in improv and medical clowning. Formerly from Minnesota, Julie has resided in Israel for the past 12 years, which gives her plenty of material for her comedy. Julie is mom to 5 kids, 1 grandbaby and 1 cat (tfu tfu).
Jezliah (also known as Jezliah Villarreal) is a Singer/Songwriter/Choreographer and Performer. Jezliah was born into a Christian family where her father was the Pastor of a Spanish speaking church and where her whole family was heavily involved in the ministry. She has been performing since …
Rebecca Lopkin is a theater educator, director and actor based in Teaneck, NJ. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from New York University in Educational Theater and is a certified Theater Arts teacher in NYS. Mrs. Lopkin is the founder and Artistic Director of Envision Theater, …
Abigail H. Meyer is an art historian, curator, and museum educator specializing in Jewish visual arts and material culture with experience in various art-world sectors including collection management and practices, museum interpretation, connoisseurship, and provenance research. Abigail was the Head of Department of Ceremonial Objects and Fine Art at Kestenbaum & Company, the leading boutique auction house specializing in rare Judaica in New York City for nearly two decades, and the Researcher for Judaica at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts where she was responsible for the scholarship, research, acquisitions and expansion of its Judaica collection. Abigail consults for museums, universities, libraries, research institutions, and private collectors as an independent visual-arts professional specializing in rare Hebrew books, illuminated manuscripts, ritual objects, and fine art. As a freelance curator, she has created exhibitions, authored catalogues, and serves as an advisor for several Jewish art initiatives. Abigail develops educational programming, crafts museum tours, and lectures on art history to draw greater attention to ritual and decorative objects and art relating to Jewish history, cultural heritage, and experience. Her research focuses on the intersection of Jewish history, cultural anthropology, museum studies, and art history: Crafting a story of Jewish history, culture, and experience through art and material culture in an encyclopedic museum.
CONTACT intentimpactmarketing@gmail.com | +972 58-574-5510 / 860-615-2254 | linkedin.com/in/askdarcie | https://open.spotify.com/artist/4zupiMnukandnKDheiFQn3 Darcie Nicole is a seasoned music professional whose dynamic career has put her at all corners of the industry. Darcie’s expertise in Vocal Performance, Songwriting, and Music Business Consulting is deeply focused in African-American …
www.lauramelnicoff.com Laura Melnicoff is a professional cellist located in New York. Her performances have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Broadway, klezmer music festivals, Satmar community centers, the Kinus HaShluchos, various Jewish music festivals, and the Israel Philharmonic. Laura was recently a member of the Fiddler …
Lisa Aronson Friedman is a biostatistician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine by vocation, and a musician by avocation. But music is not a minor hobby for her. She studied classical piano for 13 years, studied music theory, voice and guitar, and was a member of several choirs including the Oberlin College Chorus. She dabbled in composition before becoming Torah observant, but the Torah, Jewish prayer and Tehillim (Psalms) are what motivated her turn to serious song composition and musical arrangement. Her love of music and desire to inspire other Jewish women with eternal Jewish themes let her to co-found the band Ayelet HaShachar (www.ayeletmusic.org), and to found Kol Zimrah Baltimore Women’s Choir. As Lisa approaches retirement as a biostatistician, she looks forward to spending more time involved with music, including teaching piano lessons. Lisa has attended ATARA conferences and is honored to be involved with this worthy organization.
Robyn Shrater Seemann is a multi-hyphenated theatre artist: playwright-performer-producer. She is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Artists Circle (www.artists-circle.com), an all-female professional performing arts company in the Greater Washington, DC area dedicated to creating opportunities and breaking down barriers for Jewish women in …
Rebecca Lopkin is a theater educator, director and actor based in Teaneck, NJ. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from New York University in Educational Theater and is a certified Theater Arts teacher in NYS. Mrs. Lopkin is the founder and Artistic Director of Envision Theater, …
Bracha Goetz is the Harvard-educated author of 40 books that help children’s souls shine and one candid memoir for adults: www.goetzbookshop.com.
Warmly,
Bracha Goetz
Author of 40 books that help children’s souls shine
Find lots of them here: https://www.goetzbookshop.com/more-books-by-bracha-goetz
And the new book that JOYFULLY helps children understand how to stay healthy is Let’s Stay Healthy
Rebecca Klempner has published five books for Jewish children—most famously A Dozen Daisies for Raizy, and Glixman in a Fix. Her newest, Adina at Her Best, became a November 2021 pick for PJ Our Way. Her stories, essays, and articles for adult audiences have appeared in a variety of venues, …
Lisa Aronson Friedman is a biostatistician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine by vocation, and a musician by avocation. But music is not a minor hobby for her. She studied classical piano for 13 years, studied music theory, voice and guitar, and was a …
Spotlight on Women’s new column in the Jewish Press featuring the groundbreaking work of Toby Klein Greenwald in her new “Salon” style musical! Mikva, The Musical
Newsletters March through September 2018
September 2018 – Chol Hamoed, fall classes beginning, new theater!
July 2018 – Nachamusic… post 3 weeks comforting dose of the arts
May 2018 – Post-Omer festivals and events, summer 2018 happenings
April 2018 – Final recitals, 2018-19 season Auditions, & summer camp info!
March 2018 – Conference! Details & Schedule
THANK YOU ELLEN WOLFSON!!! Congratulations and Thank you to Ellen Wolfson on her beautiful and expert masterpiece.
Annie has been producing shows for women in the arts since 2007. She is the cofounder of Spotlight On Women and is the host of Spotlight On Women Radio which is aired weekly in Israel, featuring music by women for women as well as other …
Darcie (Davida Giborah) Nicole is a vocalist, songwriter, music business consultant, and publicist in the R&B/Soul idiom. Compared vocally to the likes of Chaka Khan, Teena Marie, Ann Wilson, Etta James, and Mary J. Blige, Davida Giborah is a classically trained coloratura soprano, her earliest inspiration into music comes from her mother Surah Batyah, z”l, a folk artist, and her grandfather Levi Yizchak Vladimer, z”l; a WWII-era jazz bassist who played with Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw and was the first Jewish person allowed to perform at the famed Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Her grandfather’s cousin was a Metropolitan Opera star; coloratura soprano Roberta Peters, z”l.
