“Our work with Josh began months before he actually arrived. Our community held several song circles to give congregants the opportunity to learn and practice his melodies. When Josh arrived and held a singing session on Thursday evening, we hit the ground running. By Friday evening, the anticipation for Shabbat was palpable and the energy in the room was electric! The same was true on Shabbat morning both for the service and for the Torah study that Josh led masterfully.

On Saturday evening, we shared the gift of Josh’s presence and music with the wider Jewish community, bringing in Josh’s band “Chaverei Nevarech” for a concert at our local JCC. The cherry on top was Josh leading our religious school students together with their parents on Sunday morning.  The experience with Josh continues to reverberate as we continue with special services once/month highlighting his melodies. Josh’s visit has been a gift to our community that keeps on giving!”

-Rabbi Chaim Koritzinsky, Etz Chaim Congregation, Palo Alto, CA
      

Rabbi Josh Warshawsky

Rabbi Josh Warshawsky is a nationally touring Jewish musician, songleader, composer, and educator, who has shared his original melodies and teachings with over 150 Jewish communities throughout the United States, Canada, the UK, and Israel. Josh seeks to build intentional praying communities, and composes melodies to open up new possibilities for understanding the deep meaning of the words of our tradition. He was ordained in May 2019 from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles.

Rabbi Josh is a sought after teacher. He served as the rabbi-in-residence of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago from 2020-2023 and is a core educator of Songleader Boot Camp. He has spent the past 22 summers at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, and the last 11 summers teaching and performing at Ramah camps across the country. He has released five albums of Jewish music and has been featured on eight music anthology publications.

Originally from Deerfield, IL, Josh spent the past decade living in New York, Los Angeles, and Israel. He now lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Adina Allen, and their daughter, Jona.