Ira Khonen Temple is a multi-instrumentalist, music director, and embedded cultural organizer living in Brooklyn, NY, where they co-founded the radical-traditional Yiddish music group Tsibele. Ira creates music that is a doorway between past, present and possible futures: new Jewish culture that is politically fresh, relevant, and un-nostalgic while building connections between diverse communities. Ira’s first solo album is Strange Tongue - Mistame Loshn.