Congregation Rodeph Sholom is a community of diverse Jews who adhere to the principles of the Conservative Movement. Our community draws members from many towns throughout Fairfield County, including Bridgeport, Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Trumbull, Stratford, Westport. We have a vibrant membership and a sincere and approachable clergy and staff who create a warm atmosphere for spiritual nurturing and connection.

You do not want to miss this event! Join us on Sunday, June 4 from 2 to 5 p.m. for a program and reception to celebrate Cantor Niema Hirsch becoming a newly-ordained Rabbi!

There will be performances during the event from both Mia Scarpa and Brett Boles.

Mia Scarpa is a professional actress and member of Actors’ Equity Association who resides in Manhattan. Select theater credits include Always… Patsy Cline (Patsy), Ragtime (Emma Goldman), and The Bridges of Madison County (Marian and Others) at Music Theater of Connecticut, Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Stepmother) and Evita (ensemble) at ACT of CT, The Taffetas (Kaye) at Seven Angels Theatre, and Hello, Dolly! (Dolly Levi) and Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney) at Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre.

Brett Boles is an award-winning musical theatre composer, lyricist, bookwriter and music director. His original musical Foreverman premiered at NYMF where it garnered awards for Outstanding Orchestrations and the New World Stages Development Prize. Brett has also collaborated with composer Natalie Tenenbaum on an adaptation of Benjamin Button, which has had showings at the York Theatre Off-Broadway and the Southwark Playhouse in London. He has also written original material for three of the four original Broadway Matildas, which they premiered at 54 Below. Brett’s work has been performed by Broadway Tony-nominees Jeremy Jordan, Josh Young, and Kate Baldwin.

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