cantors

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

A cantor from New York who works in tech is behind the recent revival of a holiday tradition that the Nazis had halted for 70 years.

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 3, 2020 10:23 am

Seasons without song: How Jews are adapting to the sudden disappearance of communal singing

Singing together is a centerpiece of Jewish experience. It’s also dangerous during the coronavirus pandemic.

September 16, 2020 8:00 am

Cantor Sherwood Goffin, who served Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue for 50 years, dies

He performed until 1995 in venues throughout North America, and in South Africa and Israel, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.

April 4, 2019 2:57 pm

The Dazzling Way Your Cantor Prays for Competence on the High Holidays

By Tamar Fox

from Jewniverse

Ideas

The North American cantorate is alive, well and thriving

By Steven Weiss October 7, 2016 12:15 pm

Rabbi Morton Leifman, longtime dean of JTS cantors’ school, dies at 89

May 10, 2016 3:34 pm

As congregations shrink, cantors become rabbis — and work as both

By Dina Weinstein April 14, 2016 4:11 pm

If Your Cantor Were a Rock Star He Would Sound Like This

By Leah Falk

from Jewniverse

Don’t expand settlements, rabbis and students write to Bibi

By Marcy Oster January 7, 2013 12:11 pm

A Hazzan in the Opera House

By Jewniverse

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