There’s nothing like good music to bring a community together and lift its spirits. Cantor Jacqueline Rafii of Valley Beth Shalom (VBS), who joined the Encino temple in 2022, had that in mind when she ...

Asher will be one of only two Black cantors in the country. (J. Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — As a student at London’s Royal Academy of Music in the late 2000s, Jenni Asher lived ...

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 ...

Part of a long line of cantors, he led services at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem for 30 years and helped train the next generation. By Joseph Berger Naftali Herstik, whose soulful, resonant tenor ...

Cantor Rosalie Will is making history as the first cantor at Chicago's first and oldest Reform synagogue, Chicago Sinai Congregation. "I don't take the story of the community and their rich musical ...

(New York Jewish Week) A collection of documents described as a treasure trove of Jewish music has been acquired by the New York Public Library, after being hidden in a cantor’s basement in Yonkers ...

(J. Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — As a student at London’s Royal Academy of Music in the late 2000s, Jenni Asher lived across the street from the city’s Central Synagogue. She was not ...