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Great cantors never stop learning. There are always more skills to master, more questions to ask, more scholarship to digest, more melodies to sing! The ACC seeks to engage our members in the continual process of improving ourselves and our craft through a comprehensive program of professional development – and that program is centered here.

CLASSES AND SEMINARS

January 25, 2022: 12:30pm - 2:00pm - 2:00pm

Save the dates for this four-part program

January 25, February 8, February 22, and March 8, 2022

12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST

Moral Voices: Enabling white clergy to acknowledge their positional power and use their moral voices to address oppression inside our Jewish communities

For those of us who are white Jews, the deep...

February 22, 2022: 12:30pm - 2:00pm - 2:00pm

Save the dates for this four-part program

January 25, February 8, February 22, and March 8, 2022

12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST

Moral Voices: Enabling white clergy to acknowledge their positional power and use their moral voices to address oppression inside our Jewish communities

For those of us who are white Jews, the deep...

March 8, 2022: 12:30pm - 2:00pm - 2:00pm

Save the dates for this four-part program

January 25, February 8, February 22, and March 8, 2022

12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST

Moral Voices: Enabling white clergy to acknowledge their positional power and use their moral voices to address oppression inside our Jewish communities

For those of us who are white Jews, the deep...

June 7, 2022 - June 8, 2022
Convention Programming

We are excited to announce that we are planning an ACC-GTM summer gathering for June 7-8, 2022.

The ACC leadership team who spent time at the end of the 2021 Plenary discussing future gatherings heard your feedback that you want to be together! While we are committed to finding ways to strengthen our regional connections, you were clear t...

June 26, 2023 - June 28, 2023

Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA: June 26-28, 2023 (ACC Board Meeting on June 29, 2023)

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Convention Programming

Wrapping up the day of programming and preview of the next day. Convention Co-Chair, Cantor Jen Roher will wrap up the day’s events and highlight the next day's sessions.

Convention Programming

Convention Opening Program and KavanahConvention Co-Chairs: Cantors Jen Roher and Billy Tiep, Bob Remstein and David ShukiarWelcome from ACC President, Cantor Claire FrancoOpening Kavanah with Cantors Lizzie Weiss and Sara Hass

Convention Programming

Lekha Dodi is the most famous example of Kabbalistic influence, but the Zohar has provided several passages to the Sephardic and Ashkenazic liturgy. We will explore sone of these, including Raza de-Shabbat, Berikh shemeih, and Petah Eliyahu, as well as the Zohar’s mystical interpretations of the Shema and Kaddish Yatom.

Convention Programming

A conversation with Cantor Kerith Spencer-Shapiro and Marra B. Gad addressing racial equality and racial justice in North America as a Jewish issue. Marra’s personal journey is reflected in her memoire, The Color of Love, which they will also discuss.

Convention Programming

CCAR & ACC Gender and Justice panel with Rabbi Hara Person, Chief Executive of the CCAR, and Cantor Cheryl Wunch, Chair of the ACC Women in the Cantorate Taskforce: Gender Equity in Jewish professional life.

Technology

forScore 102 for Cantors with Cantor Deborrah Cannizzaro