Summit Program
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1pm Rebbetzin Tamar Taback / Theme Presentation: Bringing the Lights of Leah into This World
1:40pm Rabbi Leibish Hundert / Beyond Information: Creative Expression in Torah Life; The Essential Role of Creative Expression in Torah-True Living.
2:10pm Rabbi Shimon Wolpe / Speech, Song and Shofar. A Story of Souls from the Women in Torah
2:30pm Rabbi Nir Menussi / Recapturing the Lost Beauty
2:55pm Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller Gottlieb / Jewish Womanhood in the Reflection of the Divine
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1pm Rabbi Akiva Tatz / Art and Woman’s Beauty
1:30pm Sarah Yehudit Schneider / Yiskah, Sarai, and Sarah: Feminine Expression
2:00pm Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman / The Union of Masculine & Feminine at the End of Days
2:30pm Sarah Goldstein (Prijs) / The Interface Between Inner Creativity, Emunah, and Finding Torah Within
2:50pm Reva Emunah Seidel / Topic: Creativity, Humor& Laughter: The Healing Gift of Clowning
INTERVIEWS
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1pm Chana Bracha Siegelbaum / Exploring the Inherent Connection Between Torah, Womanhood & Creativity
1:15pm Bracha Goetz / Lets Climb the Pleasure Ladder
1:30pm Miriam Leah Gamliel / The Creative – Spiritual Personality
1:50pm Dina Etigson / Introduction to Rav Kook and Creative Breakthrough
2:05pm Bracha Adrezin / Opening Voice as a Portal to Healing
2:20pm Amy Guterson / Entering the Dream: Geula and Creativity
2:35pm Devora Gila Berkowitz / Expressing your Inner Voice to Reveal Hashem in your Life
2:50pm Yonatan Razel / Bringing Music Out of Exile (Keynote Interview and Performance)
Day 4 – Wednesday, SEPT 7
MUSIC
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1pm Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky / Opening: The Hidden Dimensions of Music
1:15pm Chava Rachel Saban / Searching for the Song of Redemption (with Violin performance)
1:30pm Rebbitzen Tamar Taback / Piano
1:45pm Rachel Farency / Piano
2pm Rivka Nahari / Piano, Flute and Horn
2:15pm Yona Jakobovitz and Tamar Attias of the band Tofa’ah /Dusting the Soul (with Percussion and Flute performance)
2:30pm Bracha Bdil & Shoshi Brunner/ The Zmora Jerusalem Women’s Orchestra
2:40pm Yaara Sandock / Vocal Performance of Original Music
2:50pm Lisa Aronson Friedman / Praising Hashem Together: Kol Zimrah Baltimore Women’s Choir
3pm Elena Tal / From the World’s Professional Stage to the Torah Stage. Discovering Singing with Kedusha (with Vocal performance)
3:10pm Jezliah / Vocal Performance of Original Music
3:20pm Rebbitzen Judith Gerzi / Vocal Performance of Original Music
Day 5 – Thursday, SEPT 8
DANCE
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1pm Aviva Spiegel / The Overlooked Magic Formula for Geula Consciousness: Collective Dance, Drum, and Song
1:20pm Rachel Factor / Dance with Purpose
1:35pm Aviva Gottlieb / Collecting Sparks in the African Diaspora (live dance)
1:45pm Shaked Sebag / A Conversation with the RBS Dance & Music Academy director
2pm Gitty Porgesz / Dance Beyond Limits (10 min speak/5 min dance presentation)
2:15pm Rochelle Martin / T’nuat Halev: An Integrative Approach to Jewish Creativity & Wellbeing
(Interview & Expressive Movement Presentation)
2:30pm Tracy Carno / Prayer Through Dance
2:45pm Elisheva Golani / Aerial Skills
2:55pm Rivka Nahari / Ballet Company Dance & Movement
3:05pm Shelley Michal Dembe / Soulstir
Day 6 – Sunday, SEPT 11
VISUAL ARTS & DRAMA
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1pm Rae Shagalov / Surfing the G-dly Wave; Understanding the Creative Process
1:20pm Braha Bender / Art & Emunah
1:30pm Sheva Chaya / Glassblowing/Ignite Your Creativity with Torah
1:50pm Orit Martin / Artist Introspective
2pm Yehudis Barmatz-Harris / Art Through Experience: Installation, Video and Assemblage
2:15pm Nechama Sarah Burgeman / Creating Through Torah Archetypes as a Healing Process
2:30pm Tzippora Nussbaum / A Peek into Charedi Clothes from an Artist’s Point of View
2:45pm Naama Nothman / Tribute by Rebbtizen Tamar Taback
2:50pm Chana Gamliel / The Parochet: The Soul of the Shul
3pm Toby Klein Greenwald / To Touch a Soul: Theater and Creativity in our Jewish Lives
3:10pm Linda Zulberg / Performing as a Vehicle for Artistic Self-Expression and Education
Day 7 – Monday, SEPT 12
WRITING / CREATIVITY & pRAYER
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1pm Jared Lazarus /The Inner Torah of Music, Art and Dance
1:15pm Sarah Shapiro / Beloved Speech: In Search of Genuine Literature
1:30pm Shirley Perry / Expression & Sharing of Our Protective & Exiled Parts as Part of the Process of Revealing the Redemptive Potential
1:45pm Miriam Katz / Motherhood as the Ultimate Creativity
2pm Riva Pomerantz / Kindling our Creativity: Sacred or Selfish?
2:15 Yael Dworkin / The Piazeczna Rav on the Visualizing Soul and Avodas Hashem
2:30pm Esther Leah Marchette / Creativity and Voice in Hisbodedus / Personal Prayer
2:45pm Sari Kopitnikoff/ Creativity in Formal Prayer/Tefilla
2:55pm Rochel Trugman / Perek Shira
3:10pm Orly Wahba / Tehillim: A Dialogue with Hashem
Day 8 – Tuesday, SEPT 13
TRANSFORMATIONAL WORKSHOPS
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1:00 – 2:00PM
Rae Shagalov /Create Your Passion Project Vision Board
Toby Klein Greenwald / Through a New Prism: Biblio-playback Workshops
Gitty Porgesz / Dance Beyond Limits: Dance Workshops
Sari Kopitnikoff / Creating a More Rich and Flavorful Prayer Experience
Sarah Shapiro / Beloved Speech: In Search of Genuine Literature
Bracha Adrezin / Opening the Voice as a Portal for Healing Workshop
Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum / Exploring the Inherent Connection between Feminine Art & Emuna Workshop
2:15-3:30PM
Amy Guterson / Becoming a Vessel: Acting, Improv and Energy Creating a Geulah Mindset
Braha Bender / Art and Emunah: Accessing Your Creator to Support Your Creativity
Dina Etigson / Shattering the Way We See Ourselves
Devora Gila Berkowitz / Inner Voice/Outer Voice: Energy Healing to Support Your Creative or Healing Vision
Aviva Spiegel / Let’s Get Flowing! Playful Exercises to Free Your Innate Divine Creativity
Sheva Chaya / Glassblowing / Ignite Your Creativity with Torah
Shelly Michal Dembe / Soulstir – Healing Movement Workshop
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Day 9 – Wednesday, SEPT 14
Finale/Miriam’s Dance Circle
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1pm –Annie Orenstein / Reaching Redemption Through Creativity and Expression
1:20pm Chana Levitan with Lizzie Serling and Dannielle Fritch / Neve: An Oasis of Creativity and Teshuva
1:40pm Rochel Leah Weiman / The Creative Professional: Transcending Ego
2pm Rebbetzin Judy Brodt / Exploring your Soul’s Essence: Where Torah and Art meet
2:15pm Robyn Shrater Seemann / Value Your Creative Gifts
2:20pm Tzirel Liba Mitzman / The Shabbos Queen Project
2:25pm Miriam Yerushalmi / The Power of Love in Elul
2:30pm Keri Roth / Dance Presentation: “The Avodah of Music”
2:35pm Community Discussion
3pm Closing Niggun
Day 10 – Thursday, SEPT 15
Nexus Siyum for the Rise! Series
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1pm Rebbetzin Tamar Taback / Epilogue: Rise of the Feminine, Return of the Heart
1:30pm R’ Yaakov Zalmon Labinsky / The Two Facets of the Shechina, Endings and Beginnings
2pm Rebbetzin Ruthie Halberstadt / A Torah of Kindness: Connecting to the Legacy of R’ Moshe ztz”l
2:05pm Rabbi Levy Wineberg / Words of Chizuk
2:10pm Creative Expressions with Deep Sharings of Transformations