Image by Lior Keter
5:30pm – Shabbat Service
6:45pm – Light Bites
7:30pm – Concert
$36/Ticket
With roots and upbringing spanning Yemen, Israel and the United States, Achinoam Nini aka Noa, is Israel’s most highly acclaimed international singer, songwriter, percussionist, speaker and activist.
Together with her longstanding musical collaborator Gil Dor, accomplished musician and co-founder of the Rimon School of music, Noa has released 16 critically acclaimed albums, performed hundreds of concerts the world over, graced some of the most important and prestigious stages including Carnegie Hall, the White House, and performed for three Popes. She has been produced and mentored by Pat Metheny, Quincy Jones and shared the stage with a long list of international musical icons, including Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocelli and Sting.
Noa is considered Israel’s most prominent cultural advocate of dialogue and co-existence.
Noa was the only major artist to agree to perform in the fateful peace rally where Yitzchak Rabin was murdered, a shattering event that changed her life. She was the first Jewish person to perform at the Vatican for an audience of millions. She sang her own lyrics to Bach/Gounod’s “Ave Maria,” a song that has become an intrinsic part of her career. Her mission is building bridges and breaking walls between cultures and religions.
Noa fosters peace and dialogue as seen in her historic participation in the 2009 Eurovision song contest. Representing Israel with Israeli-Palestinian artist Mira Awad, her original song “There Must Be Another Way” was sung in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Noa’s lyrics and performance of the theme song of Roberto Benigni’s academy award winning film, “Life is Beautiful” have earned her international acclaim, the love and admiration of millions.
Among her many awards is Commander of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, one of Italy’s highest honors, Pilgrim of Peace from The Franciscan order in Assisi (awarded in the past to Bill Gates and Mother Theresa), and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum. Noa is Israel’s first Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is active as a board-member and public advocate of a score of human rights and peace organizations in Israel and abroad.
Currently Noa dedicates much of her time to the relationship between cultural diplomacy and resolving the climate crisis. She has been selected by Israel’s President Herzog to be part of the Presidential Climate Forum, and is involved in a groundbreaking project related to the critical preservation of the unique coral reefs of the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat region named “Reefs of Hope.” She has also established her own foundation, Noa’s Ark, and a festival of the same name which debuted in Italy summer of 2022.
Noa is married to Dr. Asher Barak. Together they have three children, Ayehli, Enea and Yum.
Please join us at TBJ on Friday May 10th at 7:30pm for Noa in concert!
This incredible opportunity is possible thanks to the generosity of the Hellring Fund.
