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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GLASER DRIVE is a New York based Americana / Folk / Rock band comprised of sisters Faige, Chaya, Eden & Doren Glaser. The sisters have been singing together for as long as they can remember. They compose, arrange and perform original Americana/Folk/Rock harmony-driven music, drawing from the roots of their musical heritage. San Diego, where the girls were raised, was a place where music flowed through their lives and veins like the ocean that surrounded them.
Official Website: http://www.glaserdrive.com/
Debut EP “Come Find Me”: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/come-find-me-ep/id975382216
Reverbnation: https://www.reverbnation.com/glaserdrive
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GlaserDrive
Article About Glaser Drive: http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/a-band-of-sisters/?/content/item/a_band_of_sisters/33216
Aliza Dubin, is a songwriter and composer born in Johannesburg, South Africa, raised in Toronto, and currently residing in Passaic, NJ with her husband and six children. Her first album, Hey Little Girl, was released in 2000. Her style of music has been described as …
Shoshannah studied studied Semitic Languages, Ancient Middle Eastern Culture and Codicology at the University of Leyden (Holland) and specialized in medieval Sephardic Hebrew poetry. Her Ph.D. thesis describes the Portuguese (Marano) Jewish Community in 17th century Amsterdam. She was involved in codicological projects with manuscripts, …
Adena C. Blickstein MD, MPH is a physician, public health professional, and proud mother of two. She is a Dancer, composer, instructor, founder and director of Professional Women’s Theater (PWT) and Jewish Women’s Talent Agency (JEWTA). She is passionate about advocating for the needs of women and children through education and family-friendly performance. She founded Professional Women’s Theater in 2007 with the goal of producing of professional caliber content for women that raise awareness of pressing needs with in the women’s community; such as positive parenting, work-life balance, and obesity and domestic violence prevention. Since 2007, PWT has hosted over fifty quality performances for over 5,000 women globally. In 2013 she received a prestigious fellowship opportunity through the Presentense incubator in NYC, through which she developed the Jewish Women’s Talent Agency and a year long Fellowship for a cohort of professional observant female artists in the New York area.
JEWTA Community Site: https://www.facebook.com/jewishwomenstalentagency/
About Adena:
http://presentense.org/adena-blickstein
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Gods-gift-to-women
https://issuu.com/shiurtimes/docs/june2008 – p. 32 & 42
By Adena:
Leah (Chwaiewsky) Bassett has trained in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern and Musical Theatre at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Academy of Dance in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Leah has performed in a wide variety of productions throughout Western Canada and had the privilege of assisting in …
Stephanie Kurtzman Barat is an active performer and teacher in the classical and Jewish music arenas. She is a graduate of Curtis Institute of Music and Carnegie Mellon University. She has soloed with many orchestras including twice with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. She has performed …
Featuring Lisa Aronson Friedman, Shalomis Koffler Weinreb, and Stephanie Rabinowitz, performs original Jewish music by women for women. The group is known for its soul-stirring themes, tight three-part vocal harmonies and melodic guitar and piano arrangements. The trio draws on a lifetime’s worth of experience and musical backgrounds that include classical, jazz, folk, musical theatre and Jewish music. Before becoming Torah observant, the women each developed expertise in their creative fields and now draw on their extensive backgrounds to reach Jewish women around the world. Lisa, on keyboards and vocals, is a classically trained pianist and as a student at Oberlin College, sung with the Oberlin College Chorus. Shalomis, on vocals and guitar, has been a professional musician most of her adult life, including producing and recording her own CDs, as well as touring nationally and internationally. Stephanie, on vocals and guitar, studied voice, theatre, and movement at New York’s Circle-in-the-Square Studio, and worked in theatre in New York City and Baltimore. Ayelet HaShachar has performed in numerous venues, including the Chol Hamoed Sukkos Women’s Concert at Brooklyn College, as well as in Philadelphia, Silver Spring, Baltimore and Eretz Yisrael. Ayelet HaShachar’s songs have been known to bring light, strength, joy and comfort to many listeners. Their music is a dynamic, uplifting expression of eternal Jewish themes, resonating with meaning for our times. Ayelet HaShachar’s debut CD, Ohr Chadash, was released in February 2005. Since then, the group has composed many more original compositions, and is currently working on a second CD.
Official Website: www.ayeletmusic.org
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Ayelet HaShachar Jewish Music Experience, Inc. is the band’s non-profit organization (501(c)(3)). Its mission is to strengthen the connection of women and girls to their Jewish spiritual and cultural heritage through the original music of Ayelet HaShachar. In accordance with this mission, Ayelet HaShachar is available for live performances for Jewish women of all ages and affiliations, educating and inspiring them with the poetry and wisdom of sacred Jewish texts. The band’s concerts and workshops help Jewish women personally experience and connect to Jewish prayer. Donations to AHJME, Inc. are tax-deductible.
Shoshana Averbach, LMSW, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, released her debut CD, The Time is Coming. Her CD features original healing songs in a variety of styles, in English and Hebrew, as well as instrumental piano compositions. Her songs foster a deeper connection with the Creator and …
Shaindel Antelis has been singing ever since she learnt how to talk, and started writing her own songs at ten years old. From when she was a young girl she dreamed about releasing an album of her own. Well that day has finally come. Shaindel …
A native of Maine, Bracha has been part of the prestigious Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, trained under world renowned maestros at the Vienna State Opera, developed expertise in traditional Italian Bel Canto singing, and received advanced training in psychology and psychotherapy from the University of Vienna. She became a specialist in the music of Puccini and Verdi. As a professional opera singer in Europe, Bracha used to perform extensively as a concert soloist for grand balls in ancient castles. Bracha sings in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, and Italian. She also composes her own music. Bracha and her husband reside in Portland, Oregon, but is available for workshops and concerts nationally. After studying many forms of body/mind healing, Bracha had a successful practice of vocal therapy, specializing in assisting women in releasing their inner power and joy through deep voice/breath release and movement.
Full feature 40 minute Interview with Bracha Goetz, author of 35 children’s books dealing with difficult topics. Interview by “Lift your Legacy.” Watch video here
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B”H I’m finally able to announce that my first single has been released! it’s B”H available and you can get it here.
Here we go…..the first podcast. Interviewing Ariella Zeitlin אריאלה צייטלין on the Franciska show! It was so fun and memorable. Listen here.
Please check out my interview with the talented and very inspiring singer Franciska, a woman who combines her Jewish faith and passion for singing with amazing results.
ANNOUNCING the release of my music available online! MODERN POP MUSIC **women only** FREE LISTENING
Hallel, a choir made up of women from Samaria, releases their rendition of Omer Adam’s hit song ‘Modeh Ani.’ Watch video here.
Watch video here. HELP US tell the epic story of the secret Jews of Spain. Our script is ready, now it’s time to arrange our melodies into song for the upcoming musical “HIDDEN: The Secret Jews of Spain.” We started arranging the first song today, …
Rivka Lomiansky Watters has been a professional performer for over 15 years and has a tremendous amount of training in acting, dance and voice. She has studied at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, as well as at the Toronto-based comedic …
Kari (Isaacson) Siegel has performed and trained in modern dance and contact improvisation across Canada. She has danced since childhood, studying a variety of contemporary styles as well as musical theatre, tap, jazz, ballet, stilt walking and acting. Kari has also worked as a stage …
Yochana Chava Pollack/strong> is a third generation artist originally from New Haven, Ct. and presently living in Jerusalem. She uses various mediums: paints, collages, and ink, and often paints phrases of Jewish teaching. Her style is whimsical and conveys simchat chayim, love of life. Yochana Chava studied Fine arts at Emuna College, Illustration and Design at Pratt, Cooper Union, SVA and Parsons Art Therapy, Drama Therapy and Creative Writing in the New School for Social Research. She has close to 20 years of teaching experience, and founded and ran RLT (“The Road Less Traveled”) a creative road trip camp for girls on the US West Coast.
Henye Meyer, a writer and theatre director in Manchester, England, has two published novels and an upcoming work to appear shortly as a serial in Hamodia. She has written articles for the BBC, Jewish Observer, Jewish Tribune, and the Jewish Homemaker, as well as comedy …
Founding Member, ATARA; Film Director – Los Angeles, CA Robin Garbose began her directing career in the theater. In New York and Los Angeles, Robin directed some 35 plays at theaters including: Ensemble Studio Theater, Jewish Repertory Theater, Manhattan Punch Line, Juilliard Theater Center and …
Aviva Speigel founded and produces the Tambourine Dream Festival in Israel. She also produces many other events and celebrations for women in Tzfat, Israel, and teaches dance improv, creative art workshops, and “Gym-dance-Shticks” for women and girls. Aviva is passionate about connecting women together so that we can help each other to move deeper into connection with ourselves, each other, and haKadosh Baruch Hu. Prior to making aliyah, Aviva co-directed the Chabad House Jewish Student Center at the University of Oregon with her husband Rabbi Asi. Aviva received her degree in Human Biology from Stanford University with a concentration in Psycho-Bio-Social Aspects of Identity and Expression and what should have been a minor in Contact Improvisation Dance, which she took almost every quarter of her university career! The techniques, format, and endless playful exercises of the school of Contact Improvisation Dance have been fundamental in the formation of her workshops. Trained as a competitive gymnast, a pianist, and an avid skiier, Aviva’s passion remains with dance, music, and pushing her limits in harmony with the natural world. Before opening Chabad in Eugene, She organized and ran creative art and movement workshops for women and girls and two successful all women’s performances in Jerusalem and New York. Her journey to Yiddishkeit began with her intense interest in holisitic healing, which led to several grants to research concepts of Jewish health and healing in Israel, and ultimately a thesis for University. This research project opened up the path for Aviva to delve more deeply into her Jewish roots. A passion for healing and personal transformation as well as an unwavering mission of spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus forms the central motivation for the creation of her classes and workshops for women.
Tambourine Dream Festival Site: http://tambourinedream.weebly.com/
Tambourine Dream Festival Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0QZDgyt8w
Videos By Aviva:
https://vimeo.com/queenjoviva
https://www.youtube.com/user/queenjoviva17
Franciska Kay (Kosman) is a composer, singer, and performer. She creates her masterpieces by weaving eternal words of prayer into soulful guitar melodies. Raised in religious school and in musical academy, Kay’s compositions reflect her commitment to bridging both worlds. Franciska started playing the piano …