When preparing for a performance, it’s very important to know how to choose a piece. It’s not enough for the cantor just to like the music. It has to be a piece that matches his voice.
“Persian Jewish melodies, to my knowledge, never have been transcribed,” and Cantor Jacqueline Rafii of Valley Beth Shalom has made it a life goal of her unique career to correct that absence. As one ...
HaZamir has 33 chapters across the United States and Israel, and each year, the chapters come together to perform communally on a professional stage. In 2026, the location will be David Geffen Hall at ...
Cantor Sharon Brown-Levy was born in the Philadelphia area, spent much of her childhood here and graduated from Lower Moreland High School. Now 54, the cantor is coming home. She’s been hired as the ...
Rabbi Joshua Skoff stood on the Bimah in the sanctuary of Park Synagogue in Pepper Pike and entertained the packed audience ...
The first thing you notice about Cantor Amy Levy is her smile. It’s wide and infectious. It lights up the room. It also comes out as soon as she sees you. This is true if she’s on the bimah at Reform ...
As rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom, Neil Amswych always hopes it’s his message that will spiritually move people when they come to a service. “I’d like to think it’s always the sermon that moves people, ...
WARSAW (Reuters) - For the first time since the Holocaust, 100 Jewish cantors from around the globe are gathering to perform in Warsaw, once one of the world's leading Jewish centers, Poland's chief ...
A German news site said a son is being held after the death of Nikola David, 55, who had been cantor for Munich’s liberal Congregation Beth Shalom since 2014. BERLIN — Munich’s liberal Jewish ...
The end of August inaugurated the Hebrew month of Elul, when Jews all over the world start getting ready for the High ...
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's loss in a Virginia primary is a blow to the kishkes (i.e. gut) for Jewish Republicans, who are now left leaderless and without a single Jewish congressman to take ...