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Let My People Sing, Piedmont, CA (2026)

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.

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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