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As we remember Elie Wiesel – memorializing one of our century’s greatest Jewish thinkers and humanitarians whom President Obama called “the conscience of the world” – we pay tribute to one of the most prominent Holocaust survivors whose message of “never forget” goes beyond the Jewish community alone.
Instead, this Nobel Peace laureate
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Jack Gottlieb’s Sharing the Prophets: The More Things Change1
HUCKSTER: You’ve really had a whale-of-a time of it, haven’t you?
JONAH: I tell you, this business of being a Prophet is a lonely job. 2
Jack Gottlieb (1930-2011) sought for his voice to be heard, not just as a composer, but also as
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In my cantorate (young that it is, as I am just in my third month of my first job), I am committed to giving my congregation an eclectic mix of congregational favorites right alongside the latest and greatest works being composed by the hottest Jewish composers out there. Music which features the prayers in our liturgy infused with English
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I’ll never forget the first few months I spent in Israel, at the beginning of my cantorial studies. Along with the thrill of living in Jerusalem came the reason I wanted to be a cantor, to learn a spiritual system of singing and chanting prayers in their ancient language. I admit I knew almost nothing about nusach or trop (traditional chant for
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I remember the first moments that I sat in the sanctuary at Temple Beth El of Great Neck and heard my cantor, Barbara Ostfeld, sing the majestic Avinu Malkeinu of Max Janowski for the first time. With the organ and the choir joining her, I felt the emotion well up inside of me as I realized the impact that this incredible music had on me. I
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