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 …
Toby Klein Greenwald has founded, co-founded or directed more than 12 theater companies or educational theater projects. She is the artistic director of Raise Your Spirits Theatre (www.raiseyourspirits.org), in which capacity she has co-authored (lyrics) and directed musicals on Esther, Noah, Ruth, Deborah and the …
Esther Leah (Aviva) Marchette is a singer, songwriter and former cantor (before becoming a baalat teshuva in her early 20’s) with a B.A. in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music in Boston, and plays piano, guitar and percussion. Professionally, she has been working in the …
Miriam Leah (Droz) Gamliel is a thought leader with a doctorate in Educational Innovation residing in Montreal, Canada. In her early career, she studied musical theatre and performed principal roles before adopting religious observance. Once observant, she became a producer and arts administrator, instrumental in …
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 …
Sarah Spielman is originally from London and made Aliya to Israel 17 years ago. When she made Aliya, she earned the “Outstanding Artist” award, the highest ranking award for a new immigrant granted by the Ministry of Absorption. Sarah received her vocal training at some …
Gayle as Deborah the Prophetess/ Photo by Rebecca Kowalsky Gayle Berman is an internationally recognized soprano, having performed as soloist throughout North America and Europe. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, where she was a Metropolitan Opera Auditions Winner, she went on to perform …
Bracha Daniel has been performing since she was 10, when she made her first debut in the Raise Your Spirits Theatre production of Joseph. Since then has been onstage for every RYS production and in various shows all over Jerusalem, including ones held in Beit …
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 …
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 …
Sarah Zier began her piano studies at the age of three. She added voice and ballet classes to the mix, and soon knew that she was to be a lifelong musician. Wanting to earn a degree and teach music as a career whilst staying within …
Audelia Zagoury, from Tzur Hadassah, a performer at Atara’s 2018 Jerusalem conference, made aliya with her family 13 years ago from Morocco. She graduated from the classical vocal department of the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance. She sang as a soloist in the Ankor Choir …
Yona Yakobovitz, a presenter at the 2018 Atara conference in Jerusalem, is Tofaah’s drummer, leader, and its founder. She composes and arranges the majority of the band’s music. She studied drums and percussion from the age of five and played the piano from age six. …
Photo by Rivka Rischall Jezliah Villarreal is a singer/songwriter/musician/dancer and the co-director and co-founder of the RBS Dance and Music Academy located in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. Jezliah was born into an Evangelical Christian home that observed the Sabbath. Her father was the pastor of …
Yael Unterman was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She grew up in Manchester, England, and returned to Israel at the age of 18. In addition to spending several years on advanced Torah studies, she earned a BA in Psychology/Talmud (Bar-Ilan University), and Masters degrees in Jewish …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …