Our Purpose
Let My People Sing! cultivates Jewish communal singing as a liberatory practice.
Our Vision
We envision a future in which all Jews can access communal singing, woven from the widest tapestry of Jewish voices, as a resource for individual, interpersonal, and collective healing.
We imagine communities where the interdependence we practice when singing together is woven into the ways we care for each other, share resources, and build a more liberated world.
Our Work
Let My People Sing! cultivates Jewish communal singing as a liberatory practice through the following pillars:
Holistic nourishment: We create environments centered in radical care, inclusivity, and an abundance of cultural and religious offerings in order to increase our participants’ social, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Skills development: We teach participants how to be leaders and learners of song, ranging from being an active participant in communal singing spaces (part of the kahal) to guiding group song with an ethos of non-hierarchical leadership.
Song preservation & creation: We are expanding the canon of Jewish songs that our communities know, in particular, prioritizing lineages that have been historically and continue to be marginalized in mainstream Jewish culture, as well as the incredible new music coming out of our communities.
Our History
Let My People Sing! was founded by Rabbi Mónica Gomery, Ilana Lerman, Rabbi Noam Lerman, Batya Levine, and Margot Seigle in 2015. The project began as a one-off retreat held at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center, where Margot and Batya were working as retreat staff. Halfway through the first LMPS retreat, people were already asking, “when is next year’s?”
From 2015-2019, the project was primarily volunteer-run, with retreats happening every summer. After the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, LMPS faced a choice. Understanding both the capacity the retreats require and hearing continuous calls for more LMPS programs, the options became clear: sunset the project or relaunch as an organization that could support the full-time staff needed to grow the programs and meet the demands of the community.
After a successful fundraising push, the project relaunched in 2023 with a full-time staff of two, an advisory council, and a network of over a dozen teaching artists and part-time support. Now with three full-time staff and an even more robust network of volunteers, advisors and teaching artists, Let My People Sing! has gone from reaching on average 300 people a year between 2015-2023 to 650 people in 2024, and now over 1000 people in 2025 through a combination of in-person retreats and workshops, and online classes.
You have created a model for Jewishness that is so inclusive and transformative. This experience has truly shaped my life in new ways. I can’t wait to experience the unfolding of the flowers that will come from the seeds of hope that have been planted in my heart by LMPS.
— 2025 Summer Retreat Participant