Rabbi Daniel Brenner, named by Newsweek Magazine as one of America's most influential rabbis, has played key roles in some of the most creative organizations in the religious world, including CLAL-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Auburn Seminary, Birthright Israel, and Moving Traditions, where he currently serves as the chief of education. Brenner's latest Jewish cultural arts project, Klezmer Aerobics, was featured as a select pick in the Weekend Arts section of The New York Times.

music director, composer, singer, guitarist –Just returning to live in Brooklyn after completing his PhD at Stanford University, Jeremiah is an interdisciplinary scholar and a musician with deep roots in cantorial music and the blues. Jeremiah is currently a Research Fellow at the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology and the lead researcher of the Cantorial and Synagogue Music Archive, an initiative that seeks to preserve and disseminate the private music collections of elder cantors. Jeremiah has played around the world as leader of The Sway Machinery and is currently developing a new blues duo, Gordon Lockwood, with drummer Ricky Gordon.u tell your story online can make all the difference.

Jordan McLean is a New York City-based composer, arranger, bandleader, trumpeter, producer and educator. McLean has been active in the professional music world since 1992, having performed, recorded and collaborated with a multitude of musicians, ensembles, and performance organizations in the leading studios, festivals, and concert halls around the world.

(born Yuli Yael Be’eri) – Singer and Musician


An Israeli musician, and performer. She has been performing music in New York City for the past fifteen years. Yula is the founder of the music and arts collective Yula & The Extended Family and The HIVE NYC. Her projects include punk-rock outfit “Nanuchka”, electronic trio "Kiss Slash Crooked Smile”, “Hydra" vocal trio and “Indiga” vocal trio.

John Bollinger is known in the New York scene as an explosive force, his fearsome groove and bone shattering bursts of energy adding an incredible excitement to his wonderful feel for a multiplicity of genres. He has worked with, among others, Barbez, Nanuchka and Guignol.