Songs of Healing and Hope

Enjoy these songs of healing and hope performed by Rabbi Annie Lewis and Rabbi Yosef Goldman.

Rabbi Annie Lewis is a passionate organizer, story-weaver, compassionate listener, and teacher of Torah of the heart who serves as Associate Rabbi of Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Center City Philadelphia. Rabbi Lewis was ordained by The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2012, where she received a master’s degree in Jewish women’s and gender studies and was awarded a Wexner Graduate Fellowship. She served as Assistant Rabbi of Germantown Jewish Centre from 2012-2016. Before joining the BZBI clergy team, Rabbi Lewis held the role of Director of Rabbinic Formation at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she oversaw professional development and field education for students. Rabbi Lewis has served as a visiting rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Gulfport, Mississippi and has worked as a community organizing trainer with JOIN for Justice. She currently serves as the rabbi of Shaare Torah.

Rabbi Yosef Goldman is a facilitator of prayer, a musician and composer, a pastoral caregiver and educator. Raised in a mixed Orthodox Ashkenazi and Mizrachi home, Yosef has taught and led prayer in communities of every Jewish movement. He has served as a ba’al tefillah for some of the most spiritually vibrant and creative prayer communities in the United States and Israel, including Romemu, B’nai Jeshurun, and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, the Kitchen in San Francisco, and Nava Tehila and Beit Tefila Yisraeli in Israel. He currently serves as the rabbi of Shaare Torah.