Limmud New York: LearningFest 2025’s
After Glow Song Circle

Sunday November 16th
9 AM to 6 PM EST
Manhattan

Join Ritual Leader & Co-Founder of Lab/Shul – Naomi Less – along with Eliana Light for the After Glow Song Circle (exact timing TBD) where you are invited to join with voices in the community, to connect through song and end our day with joy and presence – or as Rav Kook would say: to soften the heart to live our Torah out (loud) in the world. We’ve been doing a lot of thinking at Limmud today – and now we have a space to sing and feel,  metabolize our juicy learnings, and Bring Sing Them Home!.

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Naomi Less is a Brooklyn-based, internationally celebrated singer/songwriter, ritualist and educator. Beloved for her warm smile and inviting presence, communities celebrate her imagination and innovation, tenderness and pizzazz! Her original music is sung in worship communities worldwide. Naomi is the artistic producer of Songs of Toratah: ZimraTah, the first album of verses from the regendered Hebrew Bible. She has been featured on musical recordings and commissions across the Jewish community. Known most widely for her role as Co-Founder, Ritual Leader and Associate Director of Lab/Shul, she blends education, ritual and music in all of her programming. Naomi is a role model for emerging Jewish musical artists, as a Core Educator at Songleader Boot Camp and host of the show “Jewish Women Rock” on Jewish Rock Radio. Naomi tapped into her own struggle towards motherhood, co-creating TRYmester, a performance art piece for Uprooted: A Jewish Response to Fertility Challenges. She is an alum of the  Rising Song Institute Fellowship, Institute for Jewish Spirituality Educators Cohort, ROI, JTS and Northwestern University. She’s thrilled to be part of Limmud NY’s reignition.

Eliana Light is cultivating a more connected world by making the urgent spiritual wisdom of Jewish liturgy and prayer practice (t’fillah) accessible and meaningful through her prayer leadership, consulting, teaching, and The Light Lab, a center for t’fillah education. Eliana has shared her unique “t’fillahsophy” as faculty at national Jewish education and songleading conferences, as a guest teacher at Hebrew Union College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Academy for Jewish Religion, and Limmud, and at synagogues, day schools, camps, and communities across North America. ORAH HI, her fourth album of playful, thoughtful original Jewish music, was released in fall 2023, and her fifth album, Eliana Rhymes (About Jewish Times), will be out this fall. In 2023, she was awarded the Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize and is the 2025 Covenant Foundation Family Education Fellow. Eliana earned her Master’s in Jewish Experiential Education from JTS in 2016 and is based in Durham, NC.