Zamru International Summit 2024 Participants

Cantor Josh Ehrlich is a composer, lyricist, arranger, multi-instrumental accompanist, music director, music educator, and, as of July 2023, a part of the clergy team at Shaarei Tikvah in Scarsdale, NY. He earned a B.A. in linguistics from Yale University (where he music directed the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus) and an M.A. in music composition from Rutgers University. Before receiving his cantorial ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, he served as music director for the bands, choirs, and musical theater productions at Golda Och Academy, Leffell High School, and Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. Josh has written nearly a thousand musical theater orchestrations and a cappella arrangements. He made his Off-Broadway compositional debut in 2017 with The Imbible: Day Drinking—an a cappella musical celebrating brunch as a cathedral in time—which enjoyed an open-ended run at New World Stages for three years. He composed The Choral Torah: Five Books in Four Parts, a song cycle of fifty-four eclectic choral settings of biblical text (one for every parashah) published in May 2021 by The Cantors Assembly. He is also the director and co-founder of The Choral Torah Collective, a chorus of Judaeo-musical educators that performs, leads workshops for community choirs, and promotes musical and biblical literacy.

Kaley is a singer-songwriter, community entrepreneur and producer of cultural, community and spiritual events. She conducts prayer-writing workshops, collaborative performances and singing circles. Her song “Pray for Me” has become a prayer song in communities in Israel and around the world. Among her productions: “Mimtzulot” Festival, “Jaffa Chooses Life” and “Hakhel” Circle.

Itamar is a musician and a consciousness researcher who delves deep into listening and love. He is a writer, composer, facilitator, leader, and an accompanist of songs and prayer spaces, workshops, Kabbalat Shabbats, public singing evenings, sound-healing sessions and more. He resides in Pardes Hanna.

Carmit is a singer, guitarist, and graduate of ‘Rimon’. She is also a writer, composer, and a facilitator of sacred poetry circles and women’s circles that focus on the cycle of women’s life. She is a content creator for women and the host of the podcast “Here, Your Crown Has Fallen”, which delves into the topics of self-healing, the inner child, feminine energy, self-worth, and self-love. Since childhood, she has been connected to prayer and singing from her grandfather’s home. Her first album, “Mizmor Shir L’Yom Shabbat”, includes new arrangements of Shabbat and sacred songs that have become rooted in Jewish culture throughout the generations (Yemen, Hasidism, World). She continues to deepen her prayer and melody as a way to connect with G-d and to achieve inner integrity and peace.

An inspiring ba’al tefillah (prayer leader), rabbi and composer of Jewish sacred music, Yosef Goldman is a leading facilitator, consultant, and educator of Jewish communal prayer and song. He weaves ancient devotional music from his Mizrahi and Ashkenazi heritage alongside contemporary American and Israeli Jewish sacred music to foster healing, connection, and social change. His original compositions are sung in synagogues, schools, and camps across North America and Israel. Yosef has collaborated on over a dozen albums with a diverse array of voices in the world of Jewish music in the US and Israel, including recording two albums of his original spiritual music. Yosef earned a masters in sacred music degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and rabbinic ordination with a concentration in pastoral care and counseling. Yosef has served as a chaplain resident at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and Rabbi and Director of Sacred Music at Philly’s Beth Zion-Beth Israel congregation, and he is a founding faculty member and Senior Advisor for Hadar’s Rising Song Institute. Most recently, Yosef co-led Shaare Torah, a Conservative congregation in Montgomery County, Maryland, with his wife, Rabbi Annie Lewis with whom he has two children, Zohar and Shir.