We couldn’t be more excited to introduce the amazing cast of our third annual storytelling show, Stories from the Tribe! These storytellers are bringing their real-life experiences—funny, heartfelt, and unforgettable—to the bima for one special night of storytelling. Get to know the voices behind the stories, and get your tickets now to be part of this magical evening!
Meet the Emcee
Jordana Green is an award-winning journalist, speaker, cancer survivor, and mom. Jordana started her career as a beat news reporter, then medical reporter, and over a couple of decades and many markets worked to become an Emmy award winning television news anchor. In 2012 she joined WCCO radio and is the co-host of the Adam and Jordana Show. You can hear her Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-noon. Learn more about Jordana at jordanagreen.com.
Meet the Producer
Galit Breen is the Director of Engagement for Jewfolk, Inc. Galit was the original Minnesota Mammaleh columnist for TC Jewfolk when it first launched over a dozen years ago. Galit is also the Co-Producer of Listen to Your Mother Twin Cities, the bestselling author of Kindness Wins, a guide to teaching your child to be kind online and the TEDx Talk, “Raising a digital kid without having been one.” Her writing has been featured on The Huffington Post; The Washington Post; Buzzfeed; TIME; and more. She lives in Eagan with her husband, three children, and two puppies.
Meet The Cast
Laura Abrams is a Minnesota native and lover of all four seasons. In a previous chapter, she was a corporate event planner. She now uses those same skills to manage all of the logistics for her three kids. She loves planning family road trips, reading three books at a time, and trying new coffee shops on her travels with her husband. Each year, she challenges herself to do something scary or uncomfortable. This year, it was submitting her story to “Stories from the Tribe.” She challenges you to do the same. You might just find something new you love!
Robyn Awend is an energetic advocate for the arts, curating and leading exhibitions and programs that explore the intersection of creativity, collaboration, and connection. A practicing visual and literary artist, she works with words and fragmented text as a source of inspiration and expression. Her storytelling has been featured on the Listen to Your Mother Twin Cities stage as well as the inaugural Stories From the Tribe event. Robyn lives with her witty husband and their three children, who inspire her every day.
Naomi Dean grew up on a farm in Minnesota. She has taught English and Spanish in Brooklyn, New York, and Palo Alto, California, and she currently teaches ESL at Cedar Island Elementary, a public school in Maple Grove. Naomi lives with her husband Ethan, son Noah, and daughter Elsie in Plymouth. You can find her gardening, reading, writing, or walking, as well as spending time with family, including her brother, Erik, who took over the family farm. You can check out her poems in publications such as Poetica, Sylvia, The Madrigal, Collateral, Plainsongs and JAMA.
Stacey Dinner-Levin is the mother of four boys — now adults — the eldest of whom has autism. For more than 25 years, she’s worked with children with disabilities including PACER Center’s “Count Me In” program where she wrote several scripts. Her play Autistic License was named one of 2007’s Ten Best Plays by St. Paul Pioneer Press and was featured in American Theater Magazine. Autistic License was remounted for film and won “Best Educational” at the IFFF in 2010. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband Michael, her son Geordy, and the world’s strangest dog, her Chinese Crested, Birdie.
Tamar Fenton grew up in her town’s only identifiable Jewish family. This inspired Tamar’s life-path, including her deep commitment to Jewish community. A long-time JCC professional, Tamar also loves volunteering, writing, decoupage dabbling, and is a “Care Activist” for The Patient Revolution, a non-profit working to bring careful and kind healthcare to all. Her family with David is her greatest passion – Aiden and daughter-in-law Aniko, Asher and daughter-in-law Shira, amazing grandson, Levi, Ronen, and Liel (z”l). Liel often told Tamar that she was a bad-ass, so she tries to be one every day. Learn more about Tamar here: tamarfenton.wixsite.com/lielslegacy.
Linda Fiterman is a wife, mom, Amma to 9 and Great Amma to 2. These grandchildren and great-grandchildren all just happen to be the most brilliant kids in the world; baffling statisticians for years. She volunteers for any organization that includes the word Jewish. She walks her neighborhood every day with Lester Holt as she listens to Dateline podcasts. She’s an avid reader, mahjong player, and blesses the day that texting was invented. You will never see her without wearing pearls, red lipstick, and barrettes. Her goal is to hit age 100. Only 23 years to go!
Robin Gale is in Act 3 of her life. Act 1: Surviving childhood and adolescence. Act 2: Surviving marriage, children, and work. Now in Act 3, she focuses on simply flourishing. Being a mother to her three adult children, two bonus children by marriage, and a Mimah to her seven grandchildren, fills her with nachas. When she’s not busy with family, she can be found writing, hiking, or on a new adventure.
Shalva Gale is a voracious reader, amateur gardener, and mother to three miraculous young children. She lives in Minneapolis and is just hitting her stride running around the city lakes. Along with her husband, she manages their business Blending For Good. When her kids tell people what she does for work, they say that she makes YouTube videos teaching people how to make healthy (but still delicious) recipes. She’s a big fundraiser for the Down Syndrome Association of MN on behalf of her middle kiddo. She was motivated to audition for this show after watching her mother-in-law perform in the last two performances. This is her first time storytelling on stage.
Cathy Gasiorowicz is a former mime, dancer, and marketing writer. As a storyteller, she’s performed at The Moth, Listen To Your Mother Twin Cities, Patrick’s Cabaret, TedX Fridley, Minnesota Fringe Festival, History Theater, Island of Discarded Women podcast, Comedy Through the Chaos, Truth Be Told, and WTF: Love, Loss, and Why I Swore. Since “rewiring” in 2025, Cathy has loved having more time to volunteer, travel, visit family, and plan adventures with her lovely husband, Bob.
Julie Jacobs is a 65-year-old Jewish lesbian mother of four and grandmother of eight. She is a former Marathon runner and triathlete. She once completed a Half Ironman Triathlon and won in her age group. She currently swims a half mile 4-6 times a week. Julie lives within 6 miles of all her children and grandchildren. After participating in a 12-step program for the past 43 years and studying/practicing Mussar for the past 10, Julie has realized that her purpose on the planet is to foment LOVE!
Debbie Rosen Lieberman grew up in Bismarck, ND, until she moved to Minneapolis at age 15. She has a business degree from the U of M and an MBA from Chicago’s Loyola University. Debbie worked for many years as a compensation analyst in the corporate sector, later switching to work for several nonprofits. After marrying Bruce, the couple moved to Chicago’s northwest suburbs where their three boys were born. When the boys were 7, 9, and 11, they moved back to Minneapolis for Bruce’s job. Now retired and a Grami to two granddaughters, Debbie continues to enjoy family, volunteering, swimming, walking, and reading.
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About the show
An event by TC Jewfolk produced by Galit Breen, the original Minnesota Mammaleh and co-producer of Listen to Your Mother Twin Cities for the last decade+.
Stories from the Tribe features 12 women on the bima telling their true Jewish stories that have a thread to being a Mammaleh – whether that’s about their own Mammaleh or about being a Mammaleh – and includes all of the ups and downs, highs and lows, laughs and tears that come with the real-life experience of mammalehs in the Twin Cities.
During this time it’s even more important for us Jews to gather + tell our stories, loud and proud!
So this, is that!
The third annual show will once again be emceed by the incredible Jordana Green, co-host of The Adam & Jordana Show on WCCO Radio, and promises to be a stunning night of storytelling!
This show will be at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, and the show date is Monday, June 22, at 7 p.m. Seating is General Admission, and the doors will open at 6 p.m.