Guitar-slinging Cantor Stuart Simon retires after 40 years on the pulpit of Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation. Cantor Stuart Simon has sung the prayer Adon Olam to hundreds of melodies over his ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! In the Jewish tradition, the cantor leads the congregation in song and prayer. For ...

A one-of-a-kind event at Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach Thursday will bring together three show tune-singing cantors for an evening of music and reflection. "Cantors in Concert," which begins at 7 p.m.

In the spring of 1947, a small group of Hazzanim joined together to lay the foundation for a cantorial association designed to address the immediate and anticipated future concerns of practicing ...

“We need to mute you now so that we can sing together.” “As a cantor who has dedicated my life to communal singing, pressing the mute button is so unnatural,” said Cantor Rayna Green. “I miss the ...

There’s that misconception, cantor Julie Berlin says, that all she does is sing — or lead singing — at Friday night and Saturday morning Shabbat services at Temple Solel in Paradise Valley. But the ...

The Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange tonight will honor its cantor, Erica Lippitz, who 20 years ago was one of the first women ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary. Before 1987, the ...

Cantor David Tilman was not used to conducting a choir he couldn’t see. Though his ensemble members were invisible to him, they were far from nonexistent. They relied on prerecordings of his ...

For centuries, Jews the world over have experienced the joys and sorrows of their faith through the voice of the cantor. For centuries, cantors have sung such sacred songs as the mournful El Molay ...

Mike Stein, a cantor at Temple Aliyah in Los Angeles, talks about ministering with music during the pandemic. These days he has been holding services on Facebook, YouTube and Zoom. Anybody whose work ...