In 2000, Naomi met Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and became a founding company member of Storahtelling, serving as Director of Education and Training, Director of Storahtelling and ultimately as a founding Lab/Shul ritual leader and Associate Director. Her diverse original music is sung in worship communities worldwide, including Lab/Shul. Naomi Less (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based, internationally celebrated singer, composer, musician, ritual leader and educator. At home in Brooklyn, unceded Lenape lands, she lives to cook, dance, and play with her beloved and their daughter. Expansive and imaginative, Shira is here to nourish and ignite expression of the spirit. Shira is a member of the Mitsui Collective Kollel, building resilient community through embodied Jewish practice and somatic antiracism. She has been featured on NPR, hosted a queer Jewish podcast, led Shabbat on the Burning Man playa, recorded four award-winning albums, and is a frequent guest teacher or faculty of numerous international leadership conferences including Hava NaShira, SLBC, PJ Library, HUC-JIR Seminary and Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music. She tours extensively locally and globally with a vibrant invitation to connect, for a new and realized conscious world. Known in the sanctuary as a spiritual adventurist and on the kiddie rock stage as ShirLaLa, Shira practices in the field of sacred play. Co-founder of Storahtelling and Lab/Shul, she serves as Spiritual Leader weaving liturgy, text, story and song. Shira Kline (she/her) is a queer performance and ritual artist, recognized as a revolutionary educator and named one of the new re-engineers of Jewish life today. Sarah lives with her husband, Jeremy, and three children in New York City. Sarah is a lifelong Ramahnik and serves on the Board of Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. in Sociology and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College Columbia University and a B.A. In 2009 Sarah joined Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County as Director of Admissions, and spent eight years there as a senior administrator focused on increasing enrollment and retention rates, elevating marketing initiatives, and improving the overall customer experience for more than 350 families from a diverse range of backgrounds. She also consulted with camps, schools and synagogues on education programs and has guided dozens of families through the B Mitzvah process. Prior to Storahtelling Sarah has spent more than a decade designing and delivering professional and organizational development programs for Fortune 500 companies, investment banks and management consulting firms. Sarah joined Storahtelling in 2004 as a member of the company of artists, and soon after took on the position of Associate Executive Director which she held until 2009. Sarah Sokolic (she/her), Executive Director, is a community leader, educator and award-winning actor whose 20+ year career spans both the private and public sectors as well as the performing arts. In 2022 Rabbi Amichai began publishing Below the Bible Belt, a daily digital project extended over 42 months, critically queering and re-reading all 929 chapters of the Hebrew Bible.Īmichai is Abba to Alice, Ezra and Charlotte. In June 2017 Rabbi Amichai published the JOY Proposal, offering a new response to the reality of Intermarriage and taking on a personal position on this issue, including his resignation from the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement. Rabbi Amichai has been hailed as “an iconoclastic mystic” by Time Out New York, a “rock star” by the New York Times, a “Judaic Pied Piper” by the Denver Westword, a “maverick spiritual leader” by The Times of Israel and “one of the most interesting thinkers in the Jewish world” by the Jewish Week. Rabbi Amichai is a founding member of the Jewish Emergent Network, serves on the Leadership Council of the New York Jewish Agenda, is a member of the Global Justice Fellowship of the American Jewish World Service, the Advisory Council for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, an advisor to the Jerusalem Open House, and is a founding faculty member of the Reboot Network. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (he/him) is the Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc.
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