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Let My People Sing, Piedmont, CA (2026)

03/12/2026

❤️‍🩹 For the past three months, the Twin Cities have been a testing ground for the rise of fascism through Operation Metro Surge, the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history. From intricate mutual aid systems, to utilizing singing as a form of resistance, to highly effective rapid response networks, and so much more, neighbors have shown up in droves to support neighbors targeted by the operation.

🌀 Join voices on the ground in Minneapolis for an afternoon of song, stories and skills to strengthen our collective capacity to respond to these times. We’ll be grounding in song and sharing lessons learned along the way. Featuring Ricardo Levins Morales, R. Jessica Rosenberg, Margot Seigle, Bex Klafter, Miri Villerius, Kestrel Feiner-Homer, and Kohenet Riv Shapiro. Link in bio to register!

03/09/2026

⏳The Omer offers a holy and sweet structure for creative practice, reflection, and spiritual nourishment. Join Molly Bajgot and Aly Halpert during the seven week period between Passover and Shavuot, for a weekly practice of singing, exploring the sephira* of the week, and connecting these themes to our own lives.

🌀We’ll get in touch with the creative spark of the Divine in ourselves by making time for creation – journaling, writing songs, doodling, making art, dancing, etc. – with the support of online community. Come to all seven sessions as part of an Omer practice, or join when you can! Link bio to register!

➡️ Sliding Scale $ 150-360+ (No one turned away for lack of funds**) Recordings will be available to participants. Live Captioning available upon request by Monday, March 23rd.

*Sephira/Sephirot are gd-like qualities applied to the 7 weeks of the omer (i.e. lovingkindness, boundaries, harmony, etc.)
**No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email info@letmypeoplesing.org for a discount code if cost is a barrier for you.

03/06/2026

Dear community,

This year, over 600 people put their names in for just 200 summer retreat spots. While we are thrilled that so many people want to partake, we are deeply saddened year after year that we have to turn away so many in our beloved community from the nourishment of song, spirit and community.

And so, last year we decided: No more. We need to grow our offerings to meet the demand so that more people can sing with us, learn together, and support one another through such devastating times.

After a year of community input, cycles of draft plans, and feedback we are so excited to reveal to you our plan for the next five years of Let My People Sing!

Together, we’ve set bold goals for the future of Jewish song:
• Nourish three times as many people by 2030 through larger and more frequent in-person offerings
• Strengthen song culture in dozens of existing Jewish communities across the country
• Expand the mainstream canon of Jewish song to include more Jewish lineages and new music

As wise community members have shared, singing together is how our ancestors resourced themselves through unspeakable pain and through the depths of the unknown. We need more space to strengthen our collective capacity to weather the storm - to metabolize the pains and joys of the moment, together.

Join us to learn how we plan to widen our breadth, while maintaining the same quality of care and commitment to each other. Link in bio to register and learn more (recording will be sent to those who register and can’t join us live).

With excitement,
Batya, Margot and Serena

03/01/2026

📣 Join renowned vocalist and anthropologist, Dr. Galeet Dardashti, for a 2-part virtual pre-Pesach series to delve into some new and familiar melodies and teachings from Middle Eastern, North African, and Sephardic communities to enhance your Passover experience!
➡️ Sliding Scale $36-108+ (no one turned away for lack of funds*) Recordings will be available to participants. Link in bio to register! *No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email info@letmypeoplesing.org (info@letmypeoplesing.org/)" rel="ugc" target="_blank">http://info@letmypeoplesing.org/) for a discount code if cost is a barrier for you.

02/27/2026

🌱As we prepare for this year’s summer retreat, one of the things we feel most excited about is the incredible teachers who will be shepherding us through our four-day container. We’re so excited to introduce our retreat teaching team. Check out the link in our bio to learn more about the teaching team and join the retreat waitlist!

💙LEAD TEACHERS: Neta Elkayam, Amit Hai Cohen & MJ Gilbert

💜FEATURED TEACHER:
Rachel Chang

🩷PROGRAM FACULTY:
rabbi dr. koach baruch frazier, Rabbi Mónica Gomery,
Anat Halevy Hochberg & Batya Levine

02/17/2026

There’s something steadying about Jewish time.

Regardless of the headlines, the calendar turns. The holidays arrive. We gather. We tell the stories. We count the days.

This season places us back in that rhythm, as the frost thaws, and the Spring holidays approach.

Through two Let My People Sing courses, we’ll mark this season together: engaging the themes of liberation for Pesah and the quiet work of the Omer, and grounding ourselves in song that speaks to this moment as it is. Join us for:
• Sephardi and Mizraḥi Pesaḥ Songs with Galeet Dardashti
• Be Like G!d! Singing and Creating Through the Omer with Molly Bajgot and Aly Halpert

01/15/2026

🕯️Intro to Singing at Your Shabbos Table with Batya Levine

🗓️Wednesdays on Zoom | February 11, 18, 25
⏰6-7:15pm ET / 5-6:15pm CT / 3-4:15pm PT

🎶Join Batya Levine for this 3-part introductory series, where we will learn some of the standard Ashkenazi liturgy and melodies that are woven into the Friday night Shabbos table experience. Jewish home-based ritual provides an opportunity for friends and family to co-create ritual and song together, outside of institutional walls. Through the well worn practices of our ancestors, Friday night can be a time of deep connection with the Divine and with our people. Come learn traditional Ashkenazi liturgy and melodies to enliven and warm your Shabbos table. Link in bio to register!

➡️Automated captioning provided. ASL & Live Captioning available upon request by Wednesday, January 28th. No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email info@letmypeoplesing.org for a discount code if cost is a barrier for you.

01/12/2026

🎶 The lottery is LIVE! 🎶

The registration lottery and financial assistance applications for the 2026 Let My People Sing! Summer Retreat are officially open.

Join us for a four-day immersive gathering rooted in Jewish communal singing for healing and liberation, structured around Shabbat and filled with song, prayer, learning, and collective joy. We gather in multi-racial, multicultural, and genderful Jewish community, uplifting songs and leaders historically and ongoingly pushed to the margins, and creating spaces where we are all leaders and learners of song.

✨ How to enter:
🎟 Sign up for the registration lottery (open now-Feb 9)
💛 Financial assistance applications are also open (Jan 12-23)
*both links are in our bio!

🗓 August 6–9, 2026
📍 Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center | Falls Village, CT

👉 Link in bio to sign up + learn more about the summer retreat

P.S. Stay tuned, our 2026 lead and featured teachers are coming soon…

01/12/2026

🎶 The lottery is LIVE! 🎶

The registration lottery and financial assistance application for the 2026 Let My People Sing! Summer Retreat are officially open.

Join us for a four-day immersive gathering rooted in Jewish communal singing for healing and liberation, structured around Shabbat and filled with song, prayer, learning, and collective joy. We gather in multi-racial, multicultural, and genderful Jewish community, uplifting songs and leaders historically and ongoingly pushed to the margins, and creating spaces where we are all leaders and learners of song.

✨ How to enter:
🎟 Sign up for the registration lottery (open now-Feb 9)
💛 Financial assistance applications are also open (Jan 12-23)
*both links are in our bio!

🗓 August 6–9, 2026
📍 Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center | Falls Village, CT

👉 Link in bio to sign up + learn more about the summer retreat

P.S. Stay tuned, our 2026 lead and featured teachers are coming soon…

01/09/2026

📣2026 Summer Retreat: Lottery Sign-Up Opens Monday! Let My People Sing! Summer Retreat registration is around the corner! This year we’re very excited to be using a lottery system for registration to make the process more equitable and less stressful for everyone.

🗓Lottery sign-up period: January 12 - February 9
    •    Lottery sign-ups are open to individuals, groups, and families
    •    After the lottery closes, registration links will be sent out in randomized batches starting in March
    •    Once you receive a registration link in your inbox, you’ll have 72 hours to register before the next batch is invited.
    •    Receiving a link grants access to the registration form, but does not guarantee a specific housing/pricing option. Availability depends on what remains at that time.

👐All are welcome and encouraged to come sing. In alignment with our values and uplifting those historically and ongoingly marginalized in Jewish community, we are prioritizing participation of BIJCOSM, trans women and trans femmes, disabled people, raised poor or working-class folks, elders, teens, and families with young children.

🌱We are holding a two-week financial assistance application period from January 12 to January 23. Anyone is welcome to apply, and we will do our best to offer support. Given limited funds, we prioritize assistance for BIJCOSM (Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sephardim, and Mizrahim), trans women and trans femmes. We’ll be in touch in mid-to-late February about financial assistance decisions, before general registration links are sent.

💌Questions? Concerns? Feel free to reach out to info@letmypeoplesing.org

P.S. 💛 Gratitude moment: Thanks to your generosity, we reached our $18,000 end-of-year fundraising goal, ensuring we can run all of the 2026 programs we initially planned! Thank you!!

12/22/2025

🩵You may have lit all of your Chanukah candles, but there is more light ahead…

🗓️You asked, and we listened: We are doing registration differently this year. No more waiting in a panic for when the clock strikes 12:00pm EST. No more stress if your computer glitches or the internet is down. This time around, we are doing a multi-tiered lottery system. More details coming soon!

🔗As we look towards 2026, and Chanukah is about to end, we honestly still need to raise $3,018 to have enough funds for all of our planned programs. Chip in now through the link in our bio!

🌀We find ourselves in a time of contradictions. Between the Jewish month of Tevet, the recent solstice, and the Gregorian calendar, there’s a lot of mixed messages: Rest and activity; grief and joy; rage and repair; light and dark. May our dedications hold us steady, help us find the balance, the yes and, and the in-between. And if it’s ever feeling like too much, may you reach for song and community. May ancestral technologies hold you.

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.

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