Jenni Asher is set to become first ordained Black woman cantor
Asher will be one of only two Black cantors in the country
Asher will be one of only two Black cantors in the country
For months they have trained for ‘the cantor’s Olympics’
More cantors are taking on rabbinical roles, and some are seeking out dual ordination
The PBS documentary 'How Saba Kept Singing' tells the affecting tale of Holocaust survivor David Wisnia
Shahanna McKinney-Baldon channels Madame Goldye Steiner
A space in which I was given the time to speak freely became my Shabbat
A cantor steeped in Israel's history takes the pulpit in Minneapolis
Yisroel Leshes, assistant cantor of New York’s Orthodox Lincoln Square Synagogue, has released a cool, jazzy version of Morris Winchevsky’s Yiddish song, “Di Tsukunft” (“The Future”), which dreams of the day when “di velt vet vern frayer, shener, yinger, nayer” (“the world will be freer, lovelier, younger and newer”). The music video, accompanied by English…
שמעון נויבערג דערקלערט דעם חילוק צווישן אַלט־ייִדיש און מיטל־ייִדיש און די ביכער, שרײַבערס, לייענערס און דרוקערײַען פֿון יענער תּקופֿה