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.
Educational leaders from the ARJE and the ECE-RJ will share principles and practices reinforced due to COVID. What were the assumptions that were challenged and how were they met? Together we will explore how these principles will shape the future of our congregations. Click here to register.
Co-sponsored by ARJE, ECE-RJ, URJ
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ACC-CA-GTM Midwinter Retreat
Palm Springs, CA
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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
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.
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.
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.
forScore 102 for Cantors with Cantor Deborrah Cannizzaro
Tired of folders, clipped music and mess? Take your sheet music to the next level with forScore. This powerful app for IOS allows you to store music on your iPad, access music from the cloud, create set lists, and more. You can write on your music, create virtual "cuts" to jump from one page to the next, extract songs from songbooks and more....
The ACC recognizes its members who engage in continuing study. You will get credit for what you are already doing by simply letting us know!
Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Hebrew College – Online Master of Arts in Jewish Studies Program
The Davvenen' Leadership Training Institute
HUC-JIR AlumniLearn (not restricted to alumni of HUC-JIR)
HUC-JIR eLearning
HUC-JIR Symposium
The North American Jewish Choral Festival
Songleader Boot Camp
Hava Nashira
Westminster Choir College Conducting Institute
The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC)
American Jewish University – Rabbinical Management Institute
Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University – One Year MA in Jewish Education
Boston Hebrew College – Online MA in Jewish Education