Inbar Tabib, an Israeli born (American raised) female Orthodox singer, is one of the leading professional singers today, performing in Israel and abroad in various women’s events and conventions. Inbar sings in different styles and musical genres, for example: religious upbeat & dance songs, quiet …
Batya Yehudit Shrager has a BA in Music Performance from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Upon graduating, she spent a year at Neve Yerushalayim seminary in Har Nof. That year, she joined the Ron Shulamit Conservatory Orchestra and helped form their Woodwind Quintet. Seeing all …
Batya (Taylor) Shachar is originally from Boston, but moved to Los Angeles for her formative years. In LA, she worked behind-the-scenes in the music industry. She also performed in a few plays and was a part of a sketch comedy group at Theatre East in Studio City, CA. She loves writing “songs” (poems until they are complete!). Batya has a real knack for the performing arts which she mostly realized during her time in seminary in Israel. She has performed in plays by Rebbetzin Devorah Green and the Women’s Performance Community of Jerusalem, and her most notable work in the hit show ESCALATORS. Batya works in kiruv and taught dance in Yerushalayim. She currently lives in Matityahu settling in to her new family, as she recently remarried. She is humbly thankful to Hashem for His incredible gifts to her, and the opportunity to use them for TOV to entertain and inspire Jewish women.
Michal Shababo is an academically trained musician and composer who recently released her first international commercial album, Breathe it in. Her album is a work of love and passion, a collection of folk-rock original songs that tell a story of unity, hope and peace. She …
Shaked was born in Israel and raised in Arizona and has been training in dance since she was 3 years old. After becoming baalat teshuva in college in arizona, and finishing her degree in education for the arts, and made aliyah with her husband and …
Emuna Bracha (Valentina) Recchia was born in Italy in 1983. She wrote her first poetry and short stories at the age of 12. Subsequently she devoted herself to the study of dance in various schools, including the Broadway Dance Center in New York.
As a result of the experience of living in New York in 2008, she wrote her first musical (Le Favole Nel 2009) that was performed in its native region (Basilicata). She wrote the story, directed it, and created the choreographies and the scenographies with the help of an Italian artist, George Sanrocco, who became her husband.
She then wrote and directed two more musicals. (“The Masks” and “Gog and Magog”). She then moved to Florence, where in 2013 she wrote and directed her last musical. In 2012 she published her first novel, Seduta in Riva al Mare (video book on Facebook).
Currently she lives in Israel where she has completed her second book, The Third World War/em>. She produced a show with a group of dancers of Kibbutz Migdal Oz, against war and for peace.
In 2017 she had her choreographic debut in Israel as one of the choreographers of the Raise Your Spirits show Ruth & Naomi in the Fields of Bethlehem, in which she choreographed “Land of Plenty,” “African Dance” and “Land of Plenty Reprise.”
A dance choreographed for Ruth & Naomi in the Fields of Bethlehem
Gitty Porgesz is a choreographer/Dancer and Founder of Carmia Dance Group. Trained in classical and modern dance, contact-improvisation, choreography and Iyengar Yoga by some of the best teachers in the country. Gitty holds a diploma from Wingate Collage and has been teaching dance and movement …
Avital Macales is a singer, songwriter, actor, and improv comedienne, and has been performing for the past decade on various theater stages around Israel and on screen, in leading roles, including in Raise Your Spirits Theatre and WIT (Women-in-Theater) Modiin. She is a member of …
Since her immigration to Israel in 1989, Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson has been the Principal Cellist and frequent soloist of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra IBA.
German born, she studied with P. Fournier, S. Celibidache and E. Barenboim, after receiving her Soloist’s Diploma at the State’s Music Academy Hamburg (Germany). Having won top prizes, including the Diploma of the Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow, and the 1st Prize of the International Cello Competition Belgrade, she has been in high demand as a soloist in Europe, the USA, South Korea, Israel and Brazil, being accompanied by world renowned symphony orchestras from Paris, Geneva, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Tokyo, Jerusalem and Rio de Janeiro.
Following her performance at the World Cello Congress III in Baltimore, USA in 2000, she was invited as a Visiting Professor at Towson University, MD in 2001. She played in concerts and festivals and made her New York début with overwhelming success.
Her recordings include French and Israeli compositions for cello solo (IMI), a CD with Romantic and Impressionistic music for cello and piano, the Six Suites by Bach, “Nigunim” for cello solo, a CD with compositions by Gabriel Faure for cello and piano (NAXOS, 2010), and her CD with Russian sonatas for cello and piano, published by NAXOS in 2014.
Many Israeli composers have dedicated solo works to her.
During recent years, she has combined performing as a soloist and teaching master classes in the USA, in Brazil (International Cello Encounter Rio de Janeiro), in Mexico, Poland, Germany, France, Canada and China.
Elisheva (Ellen) Horowitz was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She expressed an early interest in figure drawing and painting, coupled with an innate love of Torah and Israel. Encouraged by her parents, she took courses at the Cleveland Institute of Art and later went …
Rabbi Yehoshua Gerzi, the leader of the Pilzno Shul, spent six years with the Pilzno Rav, and received from him a tremendous amount of Torah learning and practical exercises that form part of a direct mesorah from the Baal Shem Tov. He plays 13 different …
Rebbetzin Judith Gerzi, the soul-singer/songwriting sensation, is now touring with her début album, ‘Awakening.’ Originally from London, England, she now lives in Israel with her large family. With the voice of an angel, she has been called ‘ the Jewish Adele’ and ‘the white Whitney Houston’. She’ll take you from joy, to tears, to laughter… all in one show!
Judith Gerzi was born in London England and made aliya with her busband rabbi Yehoshua Gerzi and then two-year-old daughter in 2004. After battling her stage freight, she finally sang in a women’s show and, assumed to be a professional, started getting jobs as a singer/ song writer. She lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with her growing family of seven, Is the rebbetzin of their shul and owns a sheitle salon & gemach. She is also the co-director at RBS Dance and Music Academy in the music department. She recently came back from doing a mini singing tour in Miami, Florida and sings soul and jazz to women only. Her passion is to bring Achdut and awareness through her music.
Sharona Florsheim is a choreographer and improvisation artist based In Israel. In her choreographic work she brings together complex structures of improvisation and set material, emphasizing the relationships formed in real time between space, performers, and audience. Her recent work includes: The Big Game (2012), Connectivity Practices (2014), …
Adina is a Singer/Songwriter/Choreographer/Director and teacher with a successful career as a performer in the U.S. and Israel. Adina has performed everywhere from New York’s Town Hall to the Israel Festival in Jerusalem and has created three highly successful one-woman shows. In March of 2013, …
Ana Elya writes, composes, arranges and performs original texts and melodies, along with traditional songs in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino.
Born near Paris, Ana Elya was raised in a secular French culture touched by a Hassidic spirit. As a cheerful and athletic little girl she creates her first shows for family and friends. Through the beauty of the Holy Days, music and Shabbat songs, she discovered Jewish practice and started to embrace it at the age of 21. She taught and trained groups of all ages to therapeutic and recreational arts – theater, dance and puppetry- in several community centers.
Musical roots
From Spain to the island of Rhodes through Italy, Egypt, Poland and Russia, Ana Elya was born in France with multiple roots. From her father, she inherited a love of poetry and writing. From her grandmother she learnt music theory. Singing in harmony was an inherent part of her family life growing up. French songs were integral part of her childhood. Greatly inspired by the Beatles she grew up opening herself to jazz, blues, classical and world music, until she discovered Jewish prayer which lead her to her new path.
Her vocal quest with several teachers in France (classical, world music, traditional French songs, Indian singing, Roy Heart Theater) led her to the ‘’French music Academy’’ in Paris where she spent two years learning in order to become a professional singer: voice training, drama, clowning, choir singing, song writing and interpretation.
Her duet (voice-guitar) “The blue oranges” enlivened Parisian streets and cafés, public and private parties with covers. At the same time she sang her own songs with a trio along with Yiddish and Hebrew song in various halls in Paris and the provinces.
Jewish singing
In January 2000 her continual artistic quest takes her to Jerusalem where she learns at the Oriental Music School: Makam, drumming, Sephardic tropes. She performs as a drummer and singer with women bands. Prayer and praise enhance her repertoire as her profession and passion grows. She composes her own melodies, inspired by Hebrew letters and their ancestral vibrations
” When I sing in Hebrew, I unearth a new dimension in my voice. More expansive, it reaches its deepest source. I then connect to my Jewish roots: traditional songs, niggunim (hassidic melodies form Eastern Europe) and Ladino.
My voice and my path become one.”
The melodies inspired by her prayers are influenced by her multiple roots and background: African and Moroccan beats, resonances of the shtetl, jazz and blues.
Ana Elya‘s music is in essence, Jewish and universal.
“Rabbi Nahman from Breslau connects both words Prayer “Tefila” and Song “Shira” for their equal numerical value : 515 . This teaching reflects how I live my art.
My music is prayer and incantation, my song, an opening of the heart and soul
to the beauty of life and creation, of unconditional love.”
Nowadays musical activity
She leads women singing circles and performs for women. In her house in Nachlaot, groups of tourists come from all over the country to hear her story and feel her voice. According to the audience, she sings in French, Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino, mixing original compositions on Torah verses or psalms, personal texts reflecting her experiences and inner journey, as well as Chabad , Breslau and Carlebach melodies.
She also gives workshops on how to discover the simplicity, the pleasure and the joy of singing: how to let the body and the soul sing in harmony.
She coaches who want to step on stage professionally
She also heals those who can not yet express their own voices, sung or spoken.
In Israël eighteen years, Ana Elya is married and mother of 2.
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Contact
Anaëlia Ben David, Shirizli St, 19 94315 Jerusalem , Israel
Tel : 0545400150 Email anaelia111@gmail.com
Kerry Bar-Cohn, aka “Rebbetzin Tap” teaches children to love being alive and being Jewish! Kerry has been singing and dancing since childhood. Together with her husband Rabbi David, she creates educational videos with catchy songs catchy and life affirming messages. They have touched thousands of …
Hannah has been singing, dancing, and acting since before she can remember. She grew up in Agoura Hills, California amidst a very musical family. Hannah attributes almost everything she knows about singing and acting to her mother – a classically trained singer and actress, who’s …
Miriam is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Laguardia High School for the Performing Arts, the mother of B’H nine children and numerous grandchildren.
Marilyn Golomb Selber (Morah Michal), a practicing attorney, is a graduate of Stern College for Women, of Yeshiva University, and New York University School of Law. She has studied at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration of Yeshiva University and has studied drama …
Jessica is an NYU graduate and holds a B.S. in Educational Theatre and a double minor in Dramatic Literature and Studio Art. She is a certified theatre teacher in New York State and has been teaching, directing, and running drama programs for over seven years. …
Miriam Sandler never planned on becoming a professional singer but at the tender age of 18, she began touring as a background singer/dancer with numerous American and Hispanic recording artists. After receiving a Jazz Vocal Performance degree from the world renowned program at the University of Miami, she was chosen to join Jon Secada and Gloria Estefan for concert tours and TV/ video appearances. Her experience on stage was paralleled by her recording career as she accompanied James Brown and Julio Iglesias on their CD’s and was consistently demoing material for Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin and Toni Braxton. Miriam’s fast- paced lifestyle left her hungry for depth and direction and eventually, she found her way to Neve Yerushalayim, Israel. Presently, she is promoting her debut CD, “The Solution” and performing exclusively for women who are deeply moved by her heartfelt lyrics and unforgettable journey of a life of glamour and fame to one of clarity and Holiness. She is currently the music director for girls performing arts camp HaBima in Passaic, NJ and teaches vocal performance during the school year to girls in Passaic.
Esther Rachel Russell MA, is a screenwriter, performer, producer, laughter therapist and the creator of the Comedy Improvisation Workshop: To Break Through Barriers. Most recently, she performed in the acclaimed off-Broadway comedy, A Match Made in Manhattan – The Interactive Jewish Wedding Experience where she …
Leslie Gold Ruder spent ten years stage managing, casting, and producing plays off-Broadway and in regional theatres, followed by ten years of an acting career, with training from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, the Walnut Street Theatre School and the Wilma Theatre in …
Jazz Pianist.
Since 1969, Mirele has taught music to dancers and accompanied their dance classes on piano and percussion in various colleges and universities, some of which are University of Maryland, Julliard Schools of Dance, Drama, and Opera, Sarah Lawrence College, Purchase University, N.Y.U., and the Connecticut College for Dance in New London. Mirele was commissioned to compose two pieces for a professional dance company, the Liz Keene Dance Company, which have been performed throughout North America. During this time, she became a religious Jew and mother of eight children. Her husband, a virtuoso jazz guitarist, formed a chassinah band with me, which has had the pleasure of providing music to numerous chossons and kallahs. In 1986, Mirele became the musical director and pianist for world-known Israeli singer, Ruthie Navon, with whom she traveled the world, doing all-women’s concerts as far as Melbourne, Australia and Curitiba, Brazil. Mirele composed three songs for Ruthie, which she recorded on her CD called “Lead Me To Your Way”. Other singers she has accompanied include Kineret, Rachel Miller, and her daughter, Yocheved.
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Shari Rosen earned her Masters in Music in Voice Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1991. While attending the Peabody, Shari performed numerous operatic roles with the Opera Theater and Workshop programs, as well as soloing with the Peabody Symphony and Peabody/Hopkins Chorus …
Keri Roth (nee Saltzman) has over 20 years of experience in the dance world, has taught throughout Toronto, competed and performed internationally, and has extensive training in jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, hip-hop, and flamenco. Keri’s energetic approach to teaching fosters a safe, fun and challenging …
Yocheved Polonsky is a dancer, dance educator, and founder of the Creative Learning Institute of Dance in Cleveland, OH, a Judaic dance and movement arts studio to provide a holistic Jewish environment for the study of dance. Yocheved studied classical ballet, modern dance, jazz, at the Cleveland Institute of Dance, Cleveland Ballet, Chataqua Institute. Recently she studied expressive movement based on the Hebrew Aleph Beis with Judith Rose based on Otiyot Khayot. Yocheved has taught dance and exercise aquatics for a decade, as well as performed and choreographed with local dancers for community performances as Rikud Nefesh.
Creative Learning Institute of Dance
The creation of CLI was inspired by Yocheved’s sincere desire to integrate the beauty of movement with the lofty spiritual messages and values of Torah, which was lacking in the local dance community. Her studio provides fun, dynamic classes in creative movement, ballet, Jazz, Pilates and Aleph Beis movement meditation, for women only. She travels worldwide to share her inspiration and vision through her workshops and performances: her belief that every person can utilize their natural talents and gifts to praise and connect with Hashem.
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Michelle Penn started dancing at 3 years old. At 14, she joined the Fort Lauderdale Children’s Ballet Theater, under the direction of Angela Mauti. There, I was privileged to dance soloist and principal roles, including the Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty and the evil stepsisters …
Rivka Nahari has had many years of training and performing experience in both music and dance. She began her ballet training at the age of 3 and studied in the pre-professional program at the Academy of Nevada Dance Theater where she continued until her graduation …
A native New Yorker, Laura has been playing cello since the age of 6. Currently in her senior year of undergraduate study at the Mannes College of Music, Laura started keeping Shabbos in her freshman year of college. While continuing to perform at classical music venues such as Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Merkin Concert Hall, and Alice Tully Hall, as well music festivals in the U.S., Europe, and Israel, Laura has also been branching out into Jewish music. She performed with Matisyahu in 2008 and 2009; at the International Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos Conference in 2011; and regularly at farbrengens in Crown Heights at Machon Chana and Beis Rivkah High School. Upcoming performances include at the 15th Anniversary Gala for Chabad of Columbia University, the Chabad Shluchos Conference 2012, and Laura’s graduation recital at the Mannes College of Music. Additionally, Laura has been invited to be a Artist in Residence of 2012 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The Chamber of Song / Heichal Haneginah, a book of stories, talks, correspondence, and trivia about the songs of the Chabad Chassidim
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Lori Leifer is a devoted artist, friend, sister, database programmer and community organizer. She is a proud eynikle (direct descendent) of the great Ndvorna chasidim (of Premishlan) who were known for their chesed and skills on the fiddle. Raised on a farm in upstate, NY, …
Leslie Ginsparg Klein is the founder and director of Girls’ Night On!, an organization that promotes Jewish women in music and the arts. She was inspired to pick up the guitar after going to a women’s open mike night in Israel and started singing/songwriting a …
Rachel is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, NY. Working as an Acupuncturist by day, on her free time she performs and writes music. Music has always been one of her greatest passions and more recently, began performing within the women’s Jewish music world, aiming to inspire women all over to get closer to Judaism and to themselves. She is currently working on putting out an album which will include her original songs “Aishes Chayil,” “Believe,” and “Guided.”
Polina Imas is the director of Kinor Center, Chicago IL. Polina began playing the violin when she was six, she studied at the Music Institute of Chicago and pursued a double major in music performance and engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston IL. She is a …
Batya has over twenty years of experience in choir direction, harmony composition and guitar accompaniment. She currently heads two choirs that meet weekly and perform. The Teaneck PeniNote Choir and Passaic NaShira Choirs, Directed by Batya M. Harris are wonderfully varied groups of women in …
Abby Harris composes original classical music on piano, and especially loves baroque music. A music conservatory professor who is mentoring her has put her on a strict “Bach Daf Yomi” schedule. She has been composing since she was eight, and she is both a classical and Jewish composer. She premiered three of her classical compositions in New York City on December 2015. She is also a student of music theory and recently, also partimenti (basso continuo). In 2014, she competed in the prestigious Leschetizky competition for classical pianists. She is a voice-trained singer as well, and has sung on Camp Maor’s stage as well as Bais Yakov’s. Her nonmusical accomplishments include being a child model for modest clothing and a published short story writer. She attends Beis Yaakov school where her favorite subject is math.
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Leah Gottfried started acting at an early age in various films, commercials and stage productions. She has appeared in Yamaha ATV and Time Warner Cable commercials, the TV show Distant Roads and the feature film Operation: Candlelight. Stage credits include Brighton Beach Memoirs (Nora), Lost …
Elisheva (Raichman) Golani attended The University of Houston. She began dancing ballet at the age of six, at the JCC of Houston, TX. She continued to dance even after leaving home to attend a religious boarding school for girls in Florida. In Florida, Elisheva has danced with Ballet Elite and U4ria dance studios taking lyrical, modern, jazz and contemporary dance as well as ballet, and has started taking Bollywood dance. She has choreographed dances for her school productions and taught ballet to the elementary girls of Hebrew Academy in Margate, Florida and has taught dance at Torah Day School in Houston, Tx. Elisheva attended Rachel Factor’s summer dance intensive, performing for the women of Jerusalem. She continues to take dance classes in a tsnius environment and looks for opportunities for religious women to express their talents. She hopes to start her own dance company one day and open a highschool for the performing arts for religious girls.
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