Mash-ups & Medleys

Anyone who was in NFTY or a Jewish youth group in the lates 2000s/early 2010s has probably been in a service where Fix You by Coldplay was used in the place of Mi Shebeirach. Heal Us Now, by Leon Sher, is wrapped up in a lot of teen choir nostalgia for me as well. Put them together, and it’s a healing mash up that has just the reflective quality I’ve been holding onto at this point in the pandemic.

Fix Us

In honor of Trans Awareness Week, here's two pieces that speak to me personally around my experience as non-binary in Jewish space combined into one. It is both beautiful and broken, haunted and holy to feel lost in my own body and yet sacred for it at the same time.

Broken and Beautiful, Haunted and Holy

I arranged a version of How Far I’ll Go including the text of Mi Chamocha, because Miriam also stood at the edge of the waters, wondering why. Happy to have my friends and colleagues, Emily Hoolihan and Becky Mann sing this with me! Matt Teitelman, who is part of this Nava Tehilah season, is playing percussion, and I’m on the ukulele. This was used in Thursday morning Shacharit April 4, 2019, on the HUC Jerusalem campus.

How Far I'll Go/Mi Chamocha

Happy Tu B’Av! A little celebration of love for this holiday.

Can’t Help Falling in Love/Dodi Li

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Cantor at Congregation Beth Chaim
HUC-JIR DFSSM class of 2023

How Far I'll Go/Mi Chamocha

Cantor Jordan Goldstein