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Let My People Sing, Piedmont, CA (2026)

12/15/2025

Our hearts are heavy with the news of the 16 Jews killed last night at a public Chanukah celebration in Sydney, Australia, and the shooting this past Shabbat at a Jewish home in California. Chanukah is usually a time when we get to welcome warmth and joy in community, but this year, we are entering Chanukah shaken. As we continue to light the candles of the menorah, may we be resourced by the warmth of the flames, the support of community, and the fortification of solidarity shown by bystander Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian Muslim man, who courageously disarmed one of the shooters and prevented more lives from being taken.

We want to offer our community a Chanukah as a resource, knowing that song can ground us in our times of joy, as well as our times of sorrow. Please find a link to the playlist in our bio. May these melodies accompany you in the days to come.

12/04/2025

We’re still humming from our November Bay Area Shabbaton ✨ What a gift to dive into the potency of Jewish communal song together. We’re carrying the softness of our harmonies, the ecstatic energy of Motzei Shabbat, the depth of Sunday’s learning, and all the tiny moments of connection + care that made the weekend so meaningful. Thank you to everyone who came and shared your voice. 💛

⭐ Follow our teachers!
Anat Halevy Hochberg, rabbi dr. koach baruch frazier, Ary Solomon, Rabbi Tsipora Gabai, Jessalyn Levine, & Eliana Light.

⭐ Thank you to our concert musicians!
Ilana Sherer, Katja Cooper, Eva Orbuch & Candace Wase.

⭐ Share your photos + videos!
If you captured moments from the weekend, we’d love to see them. Tag us or email them to info@letmypeoplesing.org so we can share the joy.

⭐ Tune in to some of the songs we sang!
Find a playlist of melodies from the weekend in our Linktree (link in bio).

⭐ Huge gratitude to our community partners & co-sponsors!
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Kol Retreat, Base Bay, and Or Shalom Jewish Community.

As we head into winter, may the melodies we sang and the connections we formed continue to nourish and sustain you. Thank you for co-creating this truly epic LMPS Shabbaton. 🌙🕯️

Photo credit: Dan Michelson

11/20/2025

✨SONG AS A CHANNEL FOR BLESSING✨an in-person workshop with Batya Levine

🌀Drawing on the tradition of aliyot - being called up to bless and be blessed by the chanting of the Torah - we will interweave song with ritual in a co-created group space to call our prayers into the song, and call the song into our prayers. We will explore the concept of blessings, learn melodies, and have space to give and receive the blessing of song together.

🗓️Thursday, Dec 11
Arrival - 6:45pm
Workshop - 7:00-8:30pm
Temple Beth Zion | Brookline, MA

$10-36 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of funds

Access info: TBZ is an ADA accessible building. This event is mask required, the leader will be unmasked while leading.

Big thank you to our local co-sponsors TBZ (Temple Beth Zion) and Kavod Boston!

Registration link in bio!

10/30/2025

Concert Tickets Available!

Can’t make the whole Bay Area Shabbaton?
🎤Come sing with us Saturday night!
💓Even if you can’t be with us for the full Shabbaton, you’re warmly invited to gather in song and celebration on Saturday night for our community concert. The musical evening will feature our incredible program faculty, featured teachers, concert musicians, and the collective voices of all who come to sing, listen, and lift our spirit together.
🎟️ Saturday Night Concert tickets are available — open to everyone, whether you’ve been with us all weekend or are joining just for the concert. Registration link in bio!

November 8, 2025 | 8-9:30PM
Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont, CA

10/20/2025

🎶 ANNOUNCING: Featured Teachers & Grab Your Spot!

Our Bay Area Shabbaton & Sunday Song Leading Intensive is coming up Nov 7–9 at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, CA!

Learn and sing with:

🎶 Featured teachers: Eliana Light, Jessalynn Levine, Rabbi Tsipora Gabai
🎤 Program Faculty: Anat Halevy Hochberg, rabbi dr. koach baruch frazier, Ary Solomon, Batya Levine, Margot Seigle

Participants can register for just the Shabbaton, the Sunday Intensive, or both!

We’ve held specific funds for BIJOCSM (Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sephardi, and Mizrahi), trans women, and trans femme participants to attend the gathering, including sliding-scale financial assistance and comped spots.

📅 Financial assistance and registration link in bio!

09/18/2025

🍎✨ Shana Tova from Let My People Sing! ✨🍯
5785 has been a year filled with greif, rage and tumult, as well as connection and care — and it has asked a lot of many of us. We are always in the continual journey of returning, and this year, through it all, we showed up together in song, again and again, and grew together in the process— lifting our voices, tapping into wells of healing, greif, and joy, with new participants and seasoned regulars alike. Together, we opened pathways of resilience through song — building new opportunities for learning, creating space for joy and protest, and gathering in both virtual and in-person community.
Here’s a look back at some of what we co-created together:
➡️ Slides
1-8 🌿 Summer Retreat moments (in-person)
9 🎶 Songs for the Soul (virtual)
10 ✊ Songs for Prayer & Protest: a community sing facilitated by Arielle Rivera Korman & Batya Levine (virtual)
11-12 🎤 Sing! My People Concert
13-14 🕊 Ashir Shirah: Singing Kabbalat Shabbat and Reading Torah in Moroccan Nusach + Shabbat Siyum (in-person)
15 🌞 Summer Retreat Sing Back (virtual)
As we step into 5786, may our voices continue to rise in harmony, resistance, and joy. 💫

Photo credit for Summer Retreat:
Photo credit for Sing! My People Concert photos:

08/05/2025

🎶 REGISTRATION IS NOW LIVE! 🎶
Let My People Sing! Bay Area Shabbaton & Sunday Song Leading Intensive
📅 November 7–9, 2025 | Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont, CA

Join us for a spirit-tending weekend of song, connection, and community! Register for one or both of the following offerings:
✨ Shabbaton (Nov 7–8): Workshops, Shabbat services, communal meals, community sings & a participatory concert
✨ Sunday Song Leading Intensive (Nov 9): Skill-building for all experience levels

🌟 Learn with our incredible faculty: Anat Halevy Hochberg, rabbi dr. koach baruch frazier, Ary Solomon, Batya Levine, Margot Seigle, and featured teacher Eliana Light — with more local featured teachers to be announced!

This gathering is hosted in collaboration with our community partners Kehilla Community Synagogue & Kol Retreat, and co-sponsored by Base Bay & Or Shalom Jewish Community.

In a world full of upheaval, coming together in song can be a powerful tool for grounding and nourishment. We can’t wait to sing with you!

🔗 Register now — link in bio!

07/30/2025

This week we approach Tisha B’Av, a day dedicated to grief and mourning in the Jewish calendar. It is known to be the saddest day of the year, marking a number of disasters throughout Jewish history, most prominently the destruction of the first and second Temples.

How do we approach this Tisha B’Av as the saddest day of the year, when every day is so full of grief? When Gazans are being starved at the hands of the Israeli government. When ICE is detaining hundreds of immigrants daily. When the Trump administration is gutting life-saving support systems for q***r and trans people. When billionaires’ greed is forcing millions of working class people to lose their healthcare. When fires, floods, and all manner of human-created climate disasters rise.

This year, Tisha B’Av is one of many days filled with sadness and destruction. But this day is an opportunity to face the enormity of the grief collectively.

There is a tradition of singing kinnot (elegies) on Tisha B’Av, a special selection of songs/poems on the themes of tragedy and loss. This is meant to get us into the experience of mourning by way of song, and in community. In that spirit, we want to reshare LMPS’ Tisha B’Av playlist. Link in bio.

Tisha B’Av reminds us that our ancestors understood that grief is a portal, a portal that we must enter together. Grief opens up possibilities of repair, healing and transformation that we can’t even imagine until we begin to cross an initial threshold.

May we cross that threshold, together.

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07/28/2025

We're still in the midst of the three weeks - a period of grief and mourning culminating with Tisha b'Av, which cracks us open and leads us into the high holiday season. We wanted to share with you now this opportunity to learn mizrahi melodies with Yoni Avi Battat for the high holidays during Elul.

Bring Arab-Jewish music into the soundscape of your high holiday experience! In this workshop, musician Yoni Avi Battat will share traditional melodies and piyyutim (liturgical poems) for Selichot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur. Drawing from a number of different Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) traditions Yoni will teach these approachable and beautiful songs, and about the musical traditions they come from. Participants will walk away empowered to bring these melodies to their own communities and incorporate them into their high holiday musical prayer experience.

Automated captioning provided. ASL & Live Captioning available upon request by Friday, August 8th. No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email info@letmypeoplesing.org for a discount code if cost is a barrier for you.

🔗 in bio

07/10/2025

🌱 Let My People SingBACK! 🌼

Join us for our first ever Virtual Sing Back, where participants of this summer's retreat will share songs they learned or taught at the retreat. If you were at the retreat - help us share the songs we learned, and practice teaching them! If you weren't at the retreat - come learn the songs shared! We look forward to gathering in song and expanding our collective repertoire together.

Monday, July 21
6:30-7:30p ET | 5:30-6:30p CT | 3:30-4:30p PT
Virtual | Free | Register in bio for Zoom Link

07/08/2025

"Min hameitzar karati Yah anani bamerchav Yah" We came together, during a narrow time in the world, and we cried out, we sang, we danced, we offered care and generosity, and through it all, we caught glimpses of expanse amidst the narrows. Thank you to all who co-created the transformative magic of Let My People Sing!’s 2025 Summer Retreat.

🌲 From meeting our kavanah (intention) groups and singing through our fear, to bathing in collective sound during Kabbalat Shabbat, from singing with our hearts broken open at the participatory concert, to dancing long into the night by the lake, and to all the moments of connection, sharing, joy, and grief in between, we are so grateful to have had these four incredible days together. In the words of a participant, "This retreat opens up something in me that I didn’t know was there. Joy that I haven’t accessed in months, grief that is stuck and needs to move through me, and healing." ❤️‍🩹

💕 Thank you to everyone who builds a sacred space with us, virtually and in-person. Thank you to everyone who wanted to keep singing, creating more magic, and fostering communal care together. We could not have experienced this four-day slice of Olam Haba without you - until next time!

🦋Special shoutout to our incredible lead teachers and concert musicians: .gilbert & Ryan O'Donnell

📷 Photo credit: Jess Benjamin (), Let My People Sing! Summer Retreat 2025 at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center

06/10/2025

🪬Chazak u’barukh!🪬We are so proud of our Ashir Shirah cohort of learners who completed a 5 month deep dive into Moroccan Nusach for Kabbalat Shabbat, Arvit, and Te’amei Hamikrah (Torah trope).

🕯️🕯️Gathering in Brooklyn was a beautiful culmination for those who could be there in person, getting to immerse in prayer together amidst this increasingly volatile world, and getting to honor the life of a beloved Kehilla member who recently passed away.

❤️ May we continue to grow, learn, sing, pray and dine together through this difficult times.

✨ “Laura’s joy, patience, knowledge and teaching skills made the class a pleasure. The efforts and enthusiasm of those who participated was wonderful and contagious.”
- Ashir Shirah Participant

Watch out for more learning resources from this series to come later this summer.... 👀

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