NINTH NIGHT: An End-of-Chanukah Concert — Saturday, December 12, 7-8:30 pm ET / 4-5:30 pm PT
If Melaveh Malka is sending Shabbat away with a party, then Melaveh Chanukah is sending Chanukah out with a bang!
Join us for a special holiday benefit concert filled with joyful song, music, and celebration, with musicians Elana Brody, Kohenet Renee Finkelstein/Radharani, Shoshana Jedwab, Kohenet Annie Matan, Benjamin Newman, Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael, Kohenet Yedid Shapiro, Kohenet Dr. Harriette E. Wimms, Anna Sobel with Shemot Shelah, and Laura Wolfe.
This festive gathering is a benefit for Beit Kohenet, supporting our work to cultivate Jewish spiritual practice and community. We invite you to give as generously as you're able, helping us keep our programs accessible and our sacred community thriving.
Let's add a ninth light!
Registration: $36
Your participation helps sustain the work of Beit Kohenet! If you'd like to make an additional contribution, we welcome one-time or recurring donations of any amount
Though live attendance is encouraged, this event will be recorded, so you can rewatch it at a later time if you cannot attend live. For financial assistance, please contact liviah@beitkohenet.org.
FEATURED MUSICIANS
Kohenet Elana Brody
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Kohenet Renee Finkelstein/Radharani
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Shoshana Jedwab is a singer-songwriter, percussionist, and ritual artist whose music transforms personal stories into powerful communal experiences. Blending soulful vocals, poetic storytelling, and spiritual depth, she has cultivated a distinctive voice at the intersection of folk, sacred music, and contemporary songwriting. Her latest single, White Feathers, is a deeply personal mystical testimony and a luminous reflection on grief, love, and the healing that can emerge through the enduring bond between the living and the dead.
Her debut album, I Remember, along with singles including Openings, Torah Orah, Life Is Born, and Where You Go (I Will Go), offers contemporary perspectives on ancient wisdom. Her viral 2018 social justice anthem, Where You Go (I Will Go)—a "zipper song" inspired by the Book of Ruth—calls listeners toward radical inclusion and love in the face of xenophobia. Shoshana was recognized by Jewish Rock Radio as one of its "Jewish Women Who Rock the Worship World."
Kohenet Annie Matan is the first ordained Kohenet Hebrew Priestess in Canada. In service to Goddess/xx for nearly two decades, she facilitates sacred experiences, through song, ceramic art, and ritual, that remember Her and call people back to themselves. She officiates weddings and life cycle rituals, and in 2014 founded Matanot Lilith, a queer, interfaith-affirming spiritual community.
Annie lives in Toronto with her daughter Grace. You can find them elbow-deep in art supplies together, and always chasing the next show with a little magic in it.
Benjamin Newman, usually a software developer by day, is a singer-songwriter, eclectic mystic, and ritual designer, weaving life experiences, science fiction and fantasy tropes, and mystical gems from a variety of traditions into songs that range from silly to sublime.
Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael is an “unorthodox” visionary rabbi, your basic wild woman Shechinah Priestess. Ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, she is also an active member of Jewish Renewal, serving as the Director of Spiritual Arts at Aleph. She authored two children’s books: Angels for Dreamtime and New Moon and released 6 CDs. As co-founder of Women of the Wall and the co-producer of the Jewish Feminist and Gender-Inclusive Music Archive housed at Hanover University, she is a creative force! In her spare time she leads Jewish Spiritual Travel Adventures to places around the world- which have included, Israel, India, Spain, Morocco and Greece. Shechinah is always along for the ride. Next year in Croatia and Bosnia!
Kohenet Yedid Shapiro is a Jewish musician, ritual leader, and educator, and Kohenet who guides communities through embodied Jewish song and prayer. They are currently in rabbinical school at Hebrew College outside Boston. They are releasing their first album, Ana Elech, in early 2027. To learn more about their work and how to get updates, visit kohenetyedidshapiro.com.
Shemot Shelah featuring Anna Sobel: offer the practice of call-and-response chants that allow for anyone to participate, regardless of background or familiarity with Hebrew. Musician and leader Anna Sobel's original chants employ names for G!d that are feminine or gender-neutral and non-hierarchical. Kirtan is a devotional practice that opens the heart and paves the way for states of bliss and peace. At the peak of each chant, our style of kirtan closely resembles the long-lost Jewish women's practice of aynraysn, crying out, or, literally, tearing down, and gives participants the opportunity to call out to the Divine from the depths of their hearts. Shemotshelah.org
Kohenet Dr. Harriette E. Wimms is a Maryland licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in providing compassion-infused mental health care to children, adolescents, adults, and families across the age span. K’Harriette is a prayer leader in both the Kohenet community and at Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl. Dr. Wimms is also the inaugural Jews of Engagement Fellow at The Associated, Baltimore Jewish Federation (the first position of its type within any Jewish Federation System). A current Schusterman Fellow, Dr. Wimms is a Selah cohort 17 fellow; a contract trainer for Keshet, and the founder and executive director of the Jews of Color Mishpacha Project as well as the organization’s signature JOCSM Shabbatonim (JOCMishpacha.org). She is a proud Black, disabled, Jew by choice, and is most proud of being mother to her neurodiverse 18-year-old.
Laura Wolfe is a lifelong seeker, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, meditator, and recording artist with decades of experience leading musical services and peer support spaces. Skilled in coaching and facilitation across diverse communities through using and teaching Re-Evaluation Co-Counseling, she offers 1:1 and group support grounded in emotional growth and spiritual awareness—serving adoptive parents, LGBTQ+ communities, artists, and Jewish communities. She has been blessed and honored to work with and be mentored by R. David Ingber, R. Shir Meira, Chazzan Basya Shechter, Naomi Less, Shoshana Jedwab, and R. Jill Hammer, with whom she has led countless Shabbat and High Holiday services, co-led retreats, and shared the stage over the last 15 years. As a prayer leader and performer, she brings musical excellence to everything she touches, humbly serving as a channel to experience sacred space—within, and all around.