I write to invite you to join us for a powerful evening of community, music, and deep prayer at our upcoming Selichot service on Saturday, September 13, starting at 8:15pm. This year, we have a special guest—musical and prayer leader Chana Raskin, who grew up in the Hasidic section of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as part of the Chabad-Lubavitch community. I encourage you to listen to Chana’s new ground-breaking album of women singing Chasidic nigunim, Kapelya.
In a reflection about her roots and musical output, Chana writes,
From a young age, I was deeply moved by and connected to the songs—nigunim, as we called them—and musical traditions of my community. I imbibed these melodies, I absorbed them, I integrated them into the bones of my being. I breathed them, I dreamed them, I lived them out in my own way. And they, in turn, offered me solace, connection, and a sense of Home as I charted my own path.
