Dahlia Topolosky is wife and mother, musician and psychologist, and Rebbetzin of Beth Joshua Congregation in Rockville, MD. Dahlia is a licensed psychologist, with a doctorate from the combined school-clinical program at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Dahlia also enjoys singing, playing guitar, and dumbek drums. She has led concerts and kumzitzes for women and appreciates any opportunity to share Jewish mystical teachings and soulful melodies. Dahlia has started “Mommy and Me” Jewish music and movement groups for parents and children, and in 2007, produced her first album called Kol Nearim (Voice of Children), sold in Jewish stores or online. Along with her career commitments and community involvement, Dahlia places family first, spending time with her husband Rabbi Uri Topolosky and their four children: Elyon, Itai, Adi, and Liat. She hopes that their home is always known to be an open and warm place where everyone feels welcome.

Dr. Mark Singer, DMA, received his Master’s Degree in Music from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where he was concertmaster of the orchestra and a violin student of Berl Senofsky. Dr. Singer was a member of the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and the Maryland Symphony. As founder and principal violinist of the Columbia String Quartet, the Aura Nova Ensemble, and the Tizmoret Trio, he has performed in chamber music concerts throughout the eastern United States. In 2005, Dr. Singer was a Pearlstone Foundation Scholar and Lecturer. In 2010, he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland and was a recipient of a University of Maryland Career Grant. In 2015, Dr. Singer directed and performed in a series of concerts at the Gordon Center for the Performing Arts entitled, From Darkness into Light, which was sponsored by the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust. Besides conducting the Baltimore Women’s Orchestra, Dr. Singer is adjunct professor of strings at Morgan State University where he leads the Morgan Chamber Ensemble and teaches violin, viola, and string methods. He is also the founder and director of Tizmoret Shoshana Summer Music and Arts Workshop.

Rivky Saxon (JUNIOR) is 16 years old, been singing before I could speak, and have been taking voice training for the past six years with Jamie Fair, founder of East End Performing Arts. I sing everything from Opera to Country, and Rock to Rap. I am the youngest of five children, and when I’m not singing you can find me scuba diving, getting driving hours, or practicing martial arts. I hope to make Aliyah after seminary and have no idea what I want to do after that, ‘cause hey, I’m only 16! 🙂

Tzirel Mitzman was born into a musical family. Tzirel began singing and writing poetry as a young child, leading naturally into songwriting. She began performing her own original music over 20 years ago. At first, her performances were small and local as she was raising her large family. Tzirel’s style is a captivating mixture reminiscent of Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell. She is a musician on a mission to help bring the beautiful and essential life tools of emunah to women through song and has created “A Musical Journey in Emunah.” Her easy and warm rapport with her audiences helps her seamlessly teach the tools of emunah and faith to a wide range of women.

Giliah Litwack is a Maryland artist and poet who uses bold lines and vigorous color to tell stories, usually executed in ink and watercolor. She often uses both words and images to complement each other and convey an emotion, tell a tale, or express a spiritual longing. Working in a variety of two-and three-dimensional media to create paintings, drawings, jewelry, and fiber arts, she feels that her Jewish faith permeates all of her creativity. She has an Etsy shop, has done a variety of commissions, and shown in New York and other American cities. Her work is in private collections in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Israel. Website

Canadian-born international cellist Andrea Grinberg made her soloist debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at age fourteen. Since then she has been a featured soloist with the Wilfrid Laurier University Symphony Orchestra, and the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, and has won a number of competitions including the Penderecki Chamber Music Prize and has been the recipient of scholarships from institutions such as Wilfrid Laurier University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music. She has performed with many conductors including Bramwell Tovey, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Bobby McFerrin, and has performed in chamber performances with the Israel Philharmonic players and in festivals internationally. As a teacher, Andrea has taught in Canada, US and Israel. In Chicago, she worked as the director of chamber strings and summer program director of The People’s Music School Youth Orchestras, numbering over 100 inner city kids. Since moving to Baltimore in 2013, Andrea has kept an active private studio, teaches inner-city kids through the Baltimore Talent Education Center, and together with her husband Yonatan Grinberg and violist Sarah Lowenstein founded “The Baltimore Bows,” a unique community string orchestra program for young students.

Stella Filler performs with over 50 years experience of miming. Born in Tangier, Morocco, she spent much of her youth studying and performing ballet, as well as Spanish dance. With time, she moved to Israel and took her dancing talent to the field of mime. As a young adult, she learned with Yoram Boker and performed in Kibbutzim all over Israel. She studied with Fuji at the Theatre de Mime de Paris and with Ella Jaroszewics, the star of the Tomasshevsky Mime and former wife of Marcel Marceau. Other influential teachers of Stella’s were Etienne Decroux and Jean Louis Barrault. Stella reached American Shores in 1974 and promptly began teaching the art of mime. She directed mime performances at Stanford University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, College of Notre Dame, Stanbridge Academy in Palo Alto and the South Peninsula Hebrew Day school. She created her own dance troupe, Pianomime, and performed with them around the Bay Area. It was while deeply in the world of professional mime that Stella began to incorporate Jewish themes into her art, and has now quickly fame as the world’s only “Kosher” Mime.