The Franciska Show

Nechama Cohen grew up in Lakewood, NJ. Ever since she was little, she felt like music was life. She was always singing.  She started to play piano when she was about 10 years old, after her Dad taught her "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on her grandmother's piano. She started discovering the keys on her own as she learned to play by ear. A few years later, she picked up the guitar and was hooked.  Necham...

Aviva Rand started learning figure skating around five years ago with her daughter Ita, who was six and a half at the time.  Both of them became enthralled with the sport and embraced the athleticism, sportsmanship, grace and friendships that the sport offered them.  Ita was a regional competitor last year at the Juvenile level and hopes to start working on triple jumps this year.  Aviva is a Unit...

The Jewish Mama is at it again with her new music for 2018. In the studio Hendee is committed to making Dance music fused with gratitude for HaShem. Known for her parody "Jewish Mama" and her single "Never Again", HenDee is excited to share her new music with her fans and believes she can get them all to dance and be free while feeling ever so close to HaShem. "I just want to have fun while praisi...

Sarah Dukes started playing piano when she was six years old and composed her first song at the mere age of eight. Classically trained until she was 18, the North Carolina raised pianist increasingly turned to her music and songwriting as a way of expressing herself, and by the time Sarah finished high school, she had a stirring collection of original pieces that made up her debut album, "Finding...

Ayelet HaShachar, a contemporary women's Jewish music ensemble, features Lisa Aronson Friedman on keyboard and vocals, Shalomis Koffler Weinreb on guitar, percussion and vocals, and Stephanie Rabinowitz on vocals. Drawing on an extensive musical background, the trio blends original songs, unique vocal, and instrumental arrangements, and beautiful harmonies to create sounds of deepest feeling that...

"Rising Stars" segment of The Franciska Show features the next generation of women in the entertainment world.   Rivky Saxon is a 17-year old singer-songwriter from Pittsburgh, PA. She began voice training at age 10 with Jamie Fair, founder of East End Performing Arts, and sings a variety of musical styles including Opera, Country, and Rock. Programs Rivky has participated in include ATARA's Weeke...

Jessica Schechter has an MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School and a Bachelors degree in Educational Theatre from NYU. She is a certified theatre teacher in New York State and has been acting, directing, and running drama programs for over 15 years. Jessica is a professional stand up comedian and performed for a time with the improv troupe "Improvodox", a part of the 24/6 theater co...

Jezliah is a singer/songwriter/musician/dancer and the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the RBS Dance and Music Academy located in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel.   Jezliah was born into an Evangelical Christian home that observed the Sabbath. Her father was the pastor of a latino church in Austin, Texas. Her parents and family are from Mexico and settled in South Texas in their youth. From a young age,...

Raquella grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, a bus ride away from New York City where she studied at the world known Broadway Dance Center with teachers including Chio Yomada, Efrat Asherie, Luam, and others. In summer 2007 Raquella made Aliyah to Israel and is here to stay. She travels all over Israel performing and teaching hip hop workshops and classes and leaves her mark wherever she goes. She is...

Miriam Leah Gamliel, originally trained in musical theater, is one of the instrumental producers behind ATARA, organizing women to collaborate in conferences and other projects since 2007 and disseminating its newsletter. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, she studied and performed throughout high school and college before becoming observant, including training at the Pennsylvania Governors School fo...

Laura Melnicoff is a cellist in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Laura lives in Crown Heights with her husband and two little boys. She started playing cello at age 6, and pursued it through college at Mannes the New School for Music, to a master's degree in cello performance from Tel Aviv University. Always on the spiritual side, Laura took interest in her Jewish heritage while in high school at La...

There are many ways to describe Rebbetzen JUDITH GERZI, but unique, talented and charismatic just scratch the surface! With her velvety soulful voice, one that has been compared to some  of the great women performers in history (her newest name, the "jewish Adele"), her modest friendly personality wins the hearts of her audience. JUDITH GERZI is a very real performer. She writes, sings and speaks...

Sarah Zier began her piano studies at the age of three. She added voice and ballet classes to the mix, and soon knew that she was to be a lifelong musician. Wanting to earn a degree and teach music as a career whilst staying within a frum environment, Sarah began her undergraduate studies in Israel at Levinsky Teachers College and the Ron Shulamit Conservatory, where she is currently finishing up...

Ariella Zeitlin-Hoffman has been playing the violin for 20 years and teaching for 10.She have a MA in violin performance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She loves performing, creating, playing violin, teaching and recording. She has been flown internationally many times to play and share her music with people all over the world.  Ariella was born in Baltimore, MD and started violin...