Rabbi Shir Meira Feit engages people around the world, building spiritual communities, facilitating and inspiring communal music, and helping people connect with their inner wisdom and truth. He works as a spiritual leader, teacher, and musician.

Shir Yaakov has recorded and released four albums of original music and co-founded and performs with The Darshan Project. His song “Broken-hearted” recently won the Jewish Daily Forward’s 2016 Soundtrack of Our Spirit songwriting contest. Professionally, Shir Yaakov has served as Creative and Music Director for Romemu, New York City’s largest Renewal synagogue; Director of Engagement at ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal; ritual consultant for Eden Village Camp; and visiting faculty at Hebrew College and the Academy for Jewish Religion-NY.

He was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi ob”m and the ALEPH Ordination Program, a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and serves as a Council Facilitator on the Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Retreats in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Rabbi Michael Pollack chose activism over a pulpit. Inspired by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Michael created March on Harrisburg, working to root out corruption in Pennsylvania state government. A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Michael began his Jewish journey in Rockville and at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.  His hobbies include convincing politicians not to be corrupt, long marches through the Pennsylvania countryside, and sitting down in inconvenient places in the state capitol.