Composer and singer Galeet Dardashti performs Monajat (Fervent Prayer), an evening of Middle Eastern musical poetry sung during the month preceding the Jewish New Year as a means of reflection and spiritual preparation.

Dardashti reinvents Persian melodies and Hebrew texts with electronic soundscapes and dynamic video projections. The Foundation for Jewish Culture and its presenters have selected Monajat as the premiere commission of a six-city tour through its New Jewish Culture Network.

The New Jewish Culture Network has received major support from the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation. Additional support provided by the Milken Family Foundation, Sylvia M. Neil and other individual donors.