Rana Choir

The Arab – Jewish women’s choir Rana is a unique Jaffa-based choir made up of Muslim, Jewish and Christian women. The choir was created in 2016 by Mika Danny, formerly the founder and conductor of the “Shirana” choir, and Idan Toledano, formerly Shirana’s Artistic Director. The choir members are veterans of the Shirana choir that was based at the Jaffa Arab-Jewish Community Center from 2008 to 2015 and toured successfully in Israel and abroad. The choir seeks to provide a space for women’s voices, which regrettably are not heard enough in this region of the world. Rana believes in the power of shared creation and song to foster intercultural dialogue and to form deep human relationships. In singing together, the women express their sentiments and sensibilities of shared lives and destinies, their hope for life and peace, and the range of feelings common to all humankind. The choir presents and represents coexistence at its best; it is a model of emulation on numerous levels – gendered, social and musical. Its repertoire includes songs in Arabic, Hebrew, Women’s songs and folklore from different cultures of the region