Jerusalem’s Fuchsberg Center is hosting a four-day festival from July 1-4, combining music and prayer.
The Zamru Prayer Festival is built upon Songs of Zamru: Anenu, an album of cross-cultural musical collaborations between Israeli and North American musicians, which arose out of the Zamru Summit that took place last year in Jerusalem (zamru is Hebrew for “sing”).
The intensive four-day festival offers its participants a variety of master classes, study sessions, collaborative experimentation, and creation, as well as opportunities for live performances that will be open to the public.
“The festival is the natural next step after last year’s hugely successful Zamru Summit,” according to Meir Berman, co-director of the Zamru program.
A residency program focusing on writing, composing, and producing original liturgically based songs will also be offered, the fruits of which will be publicly released following the festival.
'A source of stability and hope'
“In these challenging, painful, and uncertain times, communal prayer and music serve as a source of stability and hope,” said Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff, CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, an egalitarian campus of Jewish study. “Recognizing the vital role of those dedicated to this work and its importance to the spiritual resilience of our society, we aspire to bring the power of prayer and music to more people, communities, and spaces around the world.”
The festival is a partnership of Sha’arei Bracha (Gates of Blessing), the Honey Foundation for Israel, KKL-JNF, the Jewish Agency, the Shirley and William Fleischer Family Foundation, and private donors.
For more information, fuchsbergcenter.org/zamru-festival-2025-hebrew/