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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Goldie Milgram, addingourvoi...@gmail.com <mailto:addingourvoi...@gmail.com>, 914-500-5696 HER HOLY NAMES: Groundbreaking Jewish Musical Event Complimentary tickets available to the press * Press kit available * On Sunday, November 15th, 3-5 PM ET on Zoom, “HER HOLY NAMES: A Concert of Groundbreaking Jewish Music" will feature twenty-one leading composer/performing artists offering their original Jewish music. These works stand out among those that powered fifty years and four waves of Jewish feminist activism, innovation, and accomplishments. Concert tickets to support the project are available on a sliding donation scale through the Eventbrite link at https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.reclaimingjudaism.org__;!!KGKeukY!j08RTG424xxmemO5-P-z9xIgtYJkW848WRRR2g2D_ldLRDP1ylHV1hIGUcBSqNJw1gw$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.reclaimingjudaism.org/__;!!KGKeukY!j08RTG424xxmemO5-P-z9xIgtYJkW848WRRR2g2D_ldLRDP1ylHV1hIGUcBSbZ9qFMc$ >. AMONG THOSE PERFORMING AND BEING HONORED INCLUDE: Matia Rania Angelou, Marilyn Bronstein, Shefa Gold, Latifa Kropf, Eliana Light, Alan Scott Bachman, Batya Diamond, Diane Elliot, Yael Kanarek, Katie Kaplan, Kirtan Rabbi, Marc Labowitz, Lisa L. Levine, Shoshana Litman, Goldie Milgram, Geela Rayzel Raphael, Daphna Rosenberg, Susan Rothbaum, Taya Mâ Shere, Hanna Tiferet Siegel, Yofiyah Susan Deikman, and Shawn Zevit. This upcoming concert’s performers are being honored for mining Torah, Talmud, Kabbalah, and the Jewish imagination for over fifty terms for the Divine Feminine. They have incorporated in their songs and prayers names of God in the feminine, gender-neutral, and/or also those that create gender balance and inclusion. Co-hosting the event are: Rabbi Goldie Milgram, Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael and Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross. HER HOLY NAMES concert is part of a Jewish feminist music-themed initiative called Adding Our Voices (AOV): The Torah of Jewish Women in Song that began as a Jewish feminist songbook project some thirty years ago under the leadership of award-winning singer-songwriter-recording artist-ritualist Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael. Adding our Voices is a project of Reclaiming Judaism, a non-profit dedicated to Jewish education. This Jewish feminist songbook project’s goal is normalize gender inclusion in prayer and Jewish music. For over 20 years Rabbi Rayzel Raphael, Sarah Ross PHD and Rabbi Goldie Milgram have been collecting, notating and cataloging new feminist music to highlight the innovations singer/songwriters have brought to Jewish tradition. The songbook is at a critical juncture, with the pandemic providing opportunities to showcase the material and performers on zoom platforms. Composers, performers and works featured in this concert series come from the ongoing Adding Our Voices collection that started as a Jewish feminist music project that has bloomed into gender-inclusion. Curated from over 1000-pieces, collected over a more than 20-year period, and including over 300 composers worldwide: Sarah Ross, Phd is the Director of the European Center for Jewish Music, Hannover University, author of A Season of Singing: Creating Jewish Feminist Music in the United States. (Brandeis University Press, 2016), is creating the Jewish Feminist Music Archive for the AOV collection at the sharing heritage website “Soundscape Synagogue” (SoSy). SoSy is a community based online project drawing on the method of cultural mapping that is hosted by the European Center for Jewish Music which Prof. Dr. Ross heads at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media in Germany. For more information contact Rabb Goldie Milgram: addingourvoi...@gmail.com <mailto:addingourvoi...@gmail.com>
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