Welcome to the 2022 OHALAH conference website!

The 2022 OHALAH Conference and Annual Meeting will take place from January 9th, 2022 to January 12th, 2022. The conference will be held in virtual space. Registration will open soon. 
The theme of this year's conference is: 
מה נעבד את יה
We’ll know when we get there! (Ex 10:26)
Post pandemic realities and visions for the future
We don’t know what’s on the other side of our year of pandemic: How will worship change? How will communities change? How will we be changed in our own work? How will the Jewish world and the larger world change as a result of this year?
The only certainty is the uncertainty, and perhaps this is the blessing.

Join us online from January 9, 2022 to January 12, 2022 for . . . 
  • Loving community
  • Inspired discussions
  • Soul-nourishing davvenen
  • Communal grieving, healing, and celebrating


​Rabbi David Ingber – Keynote Speaker
Rabbi David A. Ingber is the Founder and Senior Rabbi at Romemu, NYC, a community he founded in 2008 that today has over 700 households. A disciple of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Ingber was ordained by “Reb Zalman” in 2004. Rabbi Ingber serves on faculty for the Wexner Heritage Program, The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Israel, The 92nd Street Y’s program for Rabbinic Entrepreneurship, and other institutions. He was an AJWS Global Justice Fellow, as well as a Rabbinic Fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative Rabbi Ingber has lectured extensively on the topics of spirituality, theology, Jewish mysticism, prayer and meditation. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Ariel and their three children, Baer, Tal, and Or.
​Hazzan Basya Schechter – Musician-in-Residence
Hazzan Basya Schechter is best known for her group, Pharaoh's Daughter, a seven-piece world music ensemble that travels musically through continents, key signatures, and languages with a genre-bending sound.   She was ordained as a cantor through Aleph in 2016, and  has served for the last eight years as Hazzan and musical director of Romemu, on New York's Upper West Side, as well as for the Romemu Brooklyn Satellite Community. In the summer, Basya is a the Cantor for Fire Island Synagogue, co-leading with Rabbi, writer and scholar, Shaul Magid. Basya's most recent creative work is with Darshan, a musical midrash project in collaboration with esoteric indie rapper/poet Eden Pearlstein (aka ePRHYME).


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