Origin:
Chabad melody
Sung by Batya Levine
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

Rosh Chodesh Kislev Nigun - Chabad

When the World is Sick - A Silver Mt. Zion REMIX philly punk band
When the world is sick, can’t no one be well,
But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong…

Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016.

When The World Is Sick

Olam Chesed Yibaneh - adapted from Rabbi Menachem Creditor, written after 9/11 
We will build this world with love      

Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016.

Olam Hesed Yibaneh

Why, why worry when you can _____
Pray to/for the most high
Pray to/for the mothers and the fathers
Pray to/for the most high
Pray for them to watch over
Why, why worry when you can ____

Why Why Worry

Melody by IfNotNow member Arielle Korman. 

Boz del puevlo, boz del sielo.
The voice of the people is the voice of the heavens.
-- Judeo-Spanish(Ladino) Proverb

Found in Devin Naar's book Jewish Salonica.

Boz del Puevlo / The voice of the people

Negro Spiritual reinterpreted by Koach Baruch Frazier

Be With Me by Koach Baruch Frazier

Elul: Songs for Turning

Elul Niggun by Aly Halpert

Nigunim, Vol. V: Songs from the City of Brotherly Love

L'chu N'ran'na by Joey Weisenberg

Music & Lyrics by Rickie Byars Beckwith
Brought to the LMPS community by Koach Baruch Frazier
sung by Mónica Gomery & Batya Levine (apologies for the tech fuzz!)

Link to Rickie Byars Beckwith singing her original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVkf5xu8as

We let the love wash over us, we let, we let it be

We Let It Be - Rickie Byars Beckwith

Artist: Coco Love Alcorn
I learned at Adamah (Jewish Farming Fellowship) in 2014. The song was brought to the Isabella Freedman community from Let My People Sing; Batya and Noam taught it, and they learned it from Lia at a morning water ceremony at Standing Rock.

Sung at a song circle on February 22, 2020 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Lyrics:
Water heal my body
Water heal my soul
When I go down, down to the water
By the water I feel whole

Water Heal My Body (Coco Love Alcorn)

Origin:
Words are from S'lichot
We're not sure of the origin for this melody, if you know please comment!
This is a recording that Batya Levine made for NSP in preparation for co-leading High Holiday services with Rabbi Joseph in 2020

Words:
Ya'aleh tachanuneinu me'erev
V'yavo shavateinu miboker
V'y'raeh rinoneinu ad arev

Ya'aleh koleinu me'erev
V'yavo tz'dakteinu miboker
V'y'raeh p'dyoneinu ad arev

Ya'aleh inoneinu me'erev
V'yavo s'lichateinu miboker
V'y'raeh na'akteinu ad arev

Ya'aleh d'fakeinu me'erev
V'yavo gileinu miboker
V'y'raeh bakishateinu ad arev

Ya'aleh einkatenu me'erev
V'yavo eilecha miboker
V'y'raeh aleinu ad arev

Translation:
May our prayer arise this evening,
May our cry come before You by tomorrow morning, 
May our song be heard by next nightfall.

May our voices arise this evening,
May our righteousness be found by tomorrow morning, 
May our redemption be fulfilled by next nightfall.

May our fast arise this evening,
May our plea for pardon come by tomorrow morning, 
May our sighs be answered by next nightfall.

May our memory arise this evening,
May our community unite by tomorrow morning, 
May we see Your splendor by next nightfall.

May our knocking upon Your gates arise this evening, 
May our joyfulness come by tomorrow morning,
May our search for You be crowned by next nightfall.

May our weeping arise this evening, 
May it reach You by tomorrow morning. 
May You answer us by next nightfall.

Ya'aleh - V'haviotim

IfNotNow is a movement led by young Jews to transform our American Jewish community’s support for the occupation into a call for freedom and dignity for all. Learn more about the songs we sing in our movement here: http://bit.ly/2mIZUks
>on singing songs from other movements of today and from the past:
We are lucky to have the songs of our own Jewish traditions -- they are for us to sing.  Some of us have ancestors who have been deeply involved in movements across the world for social change for generations, both as those directly affected and as allies.  We are also singing their songs. 
And.
We recognize that this can easily turn into cultural appropropriation, particularly when we do not have direct links. So, before we sing a song we have a practice of honoring where it comes from: we share the movement, the struggle, or the people who birthed this music. Singing these songs is one way of acknowledging that we’re in a long line of movements for justice. 
We continue to create new movement songs. We write new lyrics. We get inspired by old text- Jewish and non-Jewish.  We do not simply translate movement songs into Hebrew in order to connect with them. One possibility instead is to incorporate Jewish text with similar themes and vision. 
From the beginning, IfNotNow leaders have been building relationships with leaders from Cosecha, BlackLivesMatter, The Dream Defenders, and other movements through the Momentum Community where we have been creating and sharing our songs with each other. Diversity keeps our movements strong and interconnected. We understand this as an ecological system of access, ancestries, struggles and strategies for resistance. Song is part of the way we arrive in interdependent relationship. We are building a culture that is accountable, compassionate -- and vibrant as all hell. Please honor the history of each song -- learn it, share it. 
We will lift each other up.

Olam Hesed Yibaneh

IfNotNow

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