San Francisco was home to the world’s first woman cantor — Madam Julie Rosewald, who served for years as cantor of Emanu-El.

Cantor Stephen Freedman is 71. He’s served as a clergy member for more than 40 years. He just finished a role as cantor at Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu-El, which joined up with Old York Road neighbor ...

“Persian Jewish melodies, to my knowledge, never have been transcribed,” and Cantor Jacqueline Rafii of Valley Beth Shalom has made it a life goal of her unique career to correct that absence. As one ...

Rabbi Max Antman, Cantor Stefanie Greene, Rabbi Jonathan Hecht, Rabbi Jacki Honig, Rabbi Schachar Orenstein, Rabbi Allison Peiser, Cantor Josh Rosenberg, Cantor Rosalie Will, and Cantor Ross Wolman ...

There is music inside of Ross Wolman; he started playing piano at age 6 and picked up guitar shortly after. His love of music has taken him all over the world, and it all started as a young boy in ...

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 ...

The Torah begins not with law or lineage but with wonder. “Bereishit bara Elohim.” It’s usually translated as, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Past tense. A past event. A ...

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's loss in a Virginia primary is a blow to the kishkes (i.e. gut) for Jewish Republicans, who are now left leaderless and without a single Jewish congressman to take ...

Beth Chaim Reform Congregation in Malvern has never had an ordained cantor. But with its new cantor educator Jenn Boyle, the synagogue now has a cantor who oversees the religious program and the ...

PHILADELPHIA -- "Prayer means self-examination," cantor Joseph A. Levine says, referring to the process of group worship, or tefillah, in synagogue. "Prayer, in Jewish understanding, means taking ...

‘Between the Temples’ stars Jason Schwartzman as a Jewish cantor and Carol Kane as an older woman completing the bat mitzvah she never had Dominik Bindl/Getty Carol Kane’s new movie doubles as an ...