Season 2 · Episode 16
Episode 2.16: Collective Healing Through Ancestral Song with Rena Branson and Riv Ranney Shapiro
Jewish Ancestral Healing Podcast · Taya Mâ
March 23, 202255m 14s
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Show Notes
Rena Branson, founder of the Queer Niggun Project, speaks on her work as a community organizer, song-weaver, and teacher of both traditional Hassidic and new liturgical melodies. In this conversation with Riv Ranney Shapiro, Rena reflects on the power of communal song to metabolize trauma and on their experience bringing Jewish spiritual gatherings and music to people incarcerated in NYC jails.