Judy Winegard was classically trained in the performing arts at Ithaca College having been awarded her BFA in Drama. She has performed in musical theater for over 25 years having performed in such productions as Jekyll and Hyde, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, …
Rachel Vernon has been training and performing in modern dance since the age of four, and over the past 20 years has had the privilege of working with many of Toronto’s leading modern dancers and choreographers. Rachel has performed in various Canadian cities, including Calgary, …
Chana Shavelson received her vocal training from Elizabeth Coss, a former principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera; Mark Aliapoulios, at the Boston University School for the Arts; and Miriam Meltzer, at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music. Chana has attended the Tanglewood Institute and appeared in operas and musicals in the Boston area. She has given five concerts of Yiddish music, and will be performing a new repertoire of Israeli folk music this spring. “Zing!” her album of Yiddish music, is available at MostlyMusic.com.
Peninnah Schram, well-known storyteller & author, is Professor of Speech and Drama at Yeshiva University’s Stern College. Vibrantly elegant in her storytelling, she tells Jewish stories of wisdom and wit. Her latest book is an illustrated anthology, THE HUNGRY CLOTHES AND OTHER JEWISH FOLKTALES (Sterling …
Ashira Morgenstern composed/released the first recording of original music by and for Jewish women in 1983 under the guidance of Rav Sheinberg of Torah Ohr and Rav Nachman Bulman. A close student of Rebbetzin Chaya Sara Freifeld, a”h, she was the founding director of Tapeynu, …
Leah Levy is a new up and coming filmmaker. Her films capture her struggles, adventures and fears as she journeyed into frumkite. After receiving a Bachelor’s of Art’s in Sociology from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, she came to New York and worked in music. With a background in theatre, drumming (middle eastern and african drums), and turning her back on a possible career in disc jockeying for religion, she decided to earn an Associate’s in Occupational Studies in Video Production at the Art Institute of New York City received June 2008. This decision to follow her creative side was inspired by her grandmother and grandfather’s influences on her in art and spirituality. Therefore, her first Experimental Film “Chumatz” was completed in their memory. “Engaged” is her last project completed in 2008.
Marilyn Lechtman began ballet training at Les Grand Ballet Canadienne in Montreal and continued studies in jazz and modern dance. She taught and performed for a number of years before turning her artistic expression to clothing and costume design. In 2005 she debuted her one-woman …
Tziporah Miriam Halperin, Mezzo-soprano, has appeared in concert and in a wide range of opera roles with companies around the U.S. including the Caramoor Festival, West Bay Opera in Palo Alto, Opera Theater of Connecticut, and the Sanibel Festival. Noted especially for her dramatic flair …
Ariella Goldberg is a singer-songwriter originally from Beverly Hills, California. She tours communities in Canada and the US performing a dramatic musical program From 90210 to 613, a musical rendition of her odyssey from secular Beverly Hills to life as a Chassidic woman. As she accompanies herself on the guitar, she weaves together Yiddish lullabies, Chassidic tunes, contemporary melodies and original compositions in a delightful and meaningful performance ideal for women’s gatherings and special occasions. Mrs. Goldberg has appeared with Israeli superstar Ruthi Navon and on CBS Radio and CKY-TV in Winnipeg, Canada. She lives in Toronto with her husband and children.
Chanale Fellig is a singer, songwriter, recording artist and performer whose melodic and moving songs open the hearts and touch the spirits of women in communities everywhere. Her powerful performances excite and inspire all-female crowds in places as far as China, South America, Alaska and …
Rachel Factor is a Kollel wife and mother who makes her home in Eretz Israel. Her journey from Hawaii, where she was born, to Los Angeles and then New York as a singer, dancer and actress and finally to her home in Yerushalayim is chronicled …
Chava Schneider was born and grew up in Chelsea. Both her parents were involved in music professionally- her father taught high school music and her mother played in orchestras locally. From an early age, Chava studied choir and piano, but immediately loved guitar. She was influenced by folk, rock, classical, popular and jazz. She led a band, recorded an album of her songs, and played, performed and recorded with many other artists. She toured extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Once she discovered Yiddishkeit, she was drawn more and more into a Jewish way of life, and now only performs for women.
Katia Bolotin, a pianist, composer, arranger and vocalist, is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Music. She holds a Master’s degree in musicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lectures and performs both nationally and internationally. She is …
Phyllis Blackman comes from a musical family and has always been in chorales and musical groups, receiving honors for her vocal performances. She has been part of the recording groups Blue Spectra and Dubie Duke and the Duchess. Phyllis composes and sings her own music …
Chana Leah Yerushalmi, JUNIOR (2012) Age 12. Chana Leah’s beautiful and inspirational songs came streaming though her a week and a half before her bas mitzvah last spring. She recorded an album in a mere week and a half with original lyrics that she composed herself with catchy, fun beats that mothers and daughters will be singing and dancing along with for years to come. Chana Leah talks about such important messages for today’s youth and people are amazed that she came to such deep realizations on her own at the tender age of twelve. Many of her songs are based on niggunim of the Chabad Rebbe and others original. Her songs themes include Bitachon, changing the world by focusing on one’s self, and loving your mother. The memory of the love song helped one mothers’ relationship with her children improve because her children were motivated by Chana Leah’s song about having love to ones’ mother.
Malka Russell, JUNIOR (2012) loves to act, sing, and play her guitar. She had a role in the play Oliver when she was 9, and played the leading role as Joseph in an original musical school play, when she was 14. She played the evil …
Natali Polonsky, JUNIOR (2012) is a 7th grader at Yavne High School. Natali has been singing and dancing since the age of 3. Natali has been studying Ballet, jazz, and hip hop at the Creative Learning Institute of Dance and has studied voice with Katia …
Tzippa Marchette, JUNIOR (2012) is an 8th grader at New England Hebrew Academy in Boston. Involved with music from a very young age, Tzippa sings and plays piano and guitar. She has studied piano and voice with Melody Michaelson and songwriting with Esther Leah Marchette, and she spent 2 summers at Kol Neshama Performing Arts Conservatory in LA. Tzippa has written 9 new original songs over the past year and hopes to make a CD in the future.
Hannah Laskow, age 14, from Agouti Hills, California has been performing on stage from the age of four. Since then she has held major roles in dozens of musicals through school, camp and community theater, including Class Act and Kol Neshamah. What she loves most …
Rebecca is a 12 year-old singer, actress and dancer from Great Neck, New York. Her performance credits include the title role in the 2011 Great Neck Public School Summer Musical Theater Production of Cinderella. Additionally, she has performed in following Sid Jacobson JCC community theater …
Tziona lives in Northern Israel, where she performs her moving original compositions and teaches singing, Torah, and prayer. She is a mulit-instrumentalist who plays guitar, piano, riq (a Middle Eastern tambourine), harmonium, and the Persian santur. After living in California, performing improvised music with free Jazz giants such as Charles Gayle, and producing story-theatres and an album of original music, she returned to her Jewish roots and moved to Israel. She channeled her diverse background, which includes intensive studies of Ballet, Tap, and Jazz, Traditional dance in Indonesia, Tai Chi, Western vocal training, Persian classical singing, and creative writing, through a lens of Torah and Mitzvot. Shedding the chaff and harvesting the essence, she uses these skills to express the heart of Jewish prayer through original songs from the Siddur (prayer book) and especially Tehillim (psalms). Since then, she has produced four albums of music, and inspired countless women and girls to express themselves through singing in holiness, and to find their own unique way to connect with G-d. Her students, some as young as 10 years old, compose their own songs and have even recorded CDs under her guidance. She performs solo, and with various drummers and instrumentalists, including violinist and vocalist Chava Rachel Saban. www.koltziona.com
Through dance, music and Chassidism, Miriam Yerushalmi has been using art to help fix our souls. Her movements echo deep teachings from Kabbalah and Tanya, inspiring children, teenagers, and adults. She deals with themes such as serving G-d with joy, as a bride or an …
Dutch-born Yona Verwer’s paintings and photos feature Kabbalah inspired imagery. Besides solo shows in the Netherlands and New York, her work has been exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and the Mizel Museum. Her murals are on view at the S.A.R. High School …
Nechama Tarlow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Certified Music Therapist practicing in New Jersey. Although a classically trained flutist, her favorite way to make music is through improvisation, which is easily facilitated with drums and percussion instruments. Nechama trained with Arthur Hull, renowned Drum Circle Facilitator, and uses percussion instruments as a key part of her music therapy practice. While doing fieldwork for her Masters Degree at Wurzweiler School of Social Work (Yeshiva University) she became interested in Music Therapy, realizing that there were ways to reach people beyond the use of words. In 2009, Nechama became a Certified Advanced Trainer in “The Nurtured Heart Approach”TM , also referred to as “Energy Parenting”, and has been training parents and consulting in schools in this unique relational approach.
Elka Reva Sudin is a visual artist who draws inspiration from urban culture and her Jewish heritage. She founded Jewish Art Now with the aim to redefine 21st century art for the Jewish community, and received critical acclaim for her “Hipsters and Hassids” painting series. …
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Leah Sigal, who currently resides in Monsey, NY, has had a passion for music since her early childhood years. Besides being a busy housewife and mommy, Leah spends her time composing and arranging soul-stirring, heart-rending and uplifting music, drawing out …
Since the age of twelve, Ilana Chava Shechter has been creating catchy, thought provoking and meaningful music. She combines personal experience and Torah insight to make music that is sure to inspire. Her songs take you on a journey of introspection and expression. These songs will move you to take a deeper look inside yourself and at the world around you.Ilana Chava aims to connect with and inspire Jewish women through her music. Ilana sees music as a gift from Hashem that has the power to transcend the physical and connect us all with something higher– to be in the world, yet transcend it.Ilana received vocal training from Elizabeth Fauntleroy of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Kate Moss of the University of Illinois, and has been a member of choirs and acapella groups. She runs a Women’s Rosh Chodesh group on the campus of University of Illinois, where she works to bring strength and inspiration to the Jewish community.
Light, color, joy, and depth define the work of Tzfat artist, Sheva Chaya Saivan. Sheva Chaya grew up in Denver, Colorado where wide open skies and the majestic Rocky Mountains inspired her to begin her career as an artist. She studied at Princeton University, majoring …
Rachael Rosenbaum sings for Jewish women. Her first solo performance was at an open mic, Girls Night On! at Makor in New York City. Since then, she has sung a capella, with a guitarist, a pianist, or her harp on several occasions, for example at …
Yocheved Perlman has been performing for over 15 years for Jewish women audiences all over the United States and Canada. She was fortunate to grow up amongst two very talented parents who are professional musicians. As a young girl, she studied with top vocal coaches. She has performed for Chabad Houses in Florida, California, Nova Scotia, and New York with her mother Mirele Rosenberger as her accompanist. Yocheved has shared the stage with such renowned singers as Ruthi Navon and Kineret. Yocheved continues to bring joy and inspiration through her beautiful and soulful voice.
Shira Nussdorf has been performing since she was a child. She began by touring with Sol Zim’s Jewish choir as a youngster. At the age of 8 she composed her first song “Winter’s On its Way” which quickly became one of her elementary school’s official …
Nishmat HaTzafon is a Jewish women’s performing arts company designed to promote the expression of Jewish women’s artistic talent and creativity. The group creates performances that explore a specific Jewish theme. Their performances interweave dance, song, music, and Jewish text and attempt to inspire and …
Eszter Margit is a writer, journalist, sociologist, art manager, healer and community organizer originally from Hungary. Her first novel, The Jewish Bride was published in 2009 in Hungary and sold out within 3 months. The book had been recently translated to English and is currently reviewed by U.S. literary agencies. Eszter moved to New York six years ago, she filled various leadership roles at the Carlebach Shul, Romemu Center and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. She regularly wrote to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Marie Claire magazine and the Jerusalem Report among many other publications. She is a kallah and lives happily with her husband Mordechai, a Torah loving musician.
Talia Lakritz hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and studies English and Creative Writing at Barnard College in New York City. A singer/songwriter and digital content creator known as “nerdwithavoice” on YouTube, her outspoken videos about Orthodox Jewish feminism have been featured on BBC, NPR, Yahoo! News, …
Dages Juvelier Keates is a movement artist based in Brooklyn. She received her BA in dance from Bard College after attending Interlochen Arts Academy. She has performed for choreographers such as Noemie Lafrance, Jennifer Monson, Susan Osberg, Leslie Satin, and Kristi Spessard. She is currently …
Natalia Kadish is a Surrealist artist inspired by the joy received from learning Torah and contemplating the infinite. She received a BA in Illustration from School of Visual Arts. Her art has been displayed in several concerts including Irving Plaza in NYC. While incorporating the realism of her father, Laszlo Kubinyi’s, illustrations she explores mystical concepts and understandings inspired by her visit to the Artist Colony in Tzfat, Israel. Her goal is to reveal the love in hearts and share her inspiration with all. “Through art, I attempt to grasp the infinite, to embrace and expose its beauty. My illustrations are symbolic lessons I have learned through my experiences. The motivation behind my artistic expression is one of joyful universality. My goal in each piece of art is to take the viewer on a personal mini-journey bringing the viewer to an experience of the awakening and revealing the love of life that is with in. Every one has a unique love of life animating them. This needs to be revealed in order to spread inspiration. To take these physical aspects of reality and apply them to their spiritual counterpart shows that life, and these objects, are not mundane; they truly are miracles of creation. I want the viewer to be inspired not just by my art, but by life itself.”
DeDe Jacobs-Komisar is originally from Baltimore, where she co-founded the Jewish Theatre Workshop and ran JTTV Live!, an interactive teen theater program. While living in Israel, DeDe founded and led BamatMabat Theater Company and appeared in productions of Center Stage Theater and Jerusalem English-Speaking Theater. …
Penina (Paula) Jacobs is originally from Los Angeles, where she began acting at the age of six. After various roles in theater and television in the United States and Canada, she became involved in theater for young audiences in 1989 though her work as a …
Infinite Light is a women’s band which seeks to spread the teachings of Light and love throughout the land, spread joy and light and inspire women all over to reach inside themselves and express their amazing talents, creativity, and inner beauty. Our songs are Inspired by The Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the teachings of Chabad Chasidus. We strive to make the world a better place through our music, and we hope that it will aid to hasten the era of Ultimate Peace, Imminently! Sprintza Blumenthal/Paz Cadaner/Deborah Melamed** – Vocals, Rivki Kumer –Piano, Dana Pestun – Violin.
Tamar Guterson is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has studied piano and is currently studying voice and she loves music and acting. Tamar has appeared in numerous films including “Becoming Rachel” and “The Keystone.”