Growing up, Hillel Friedman was afraid to sing. Now he leads the Woodbury Jewish Center as cantor. Friedman said his family has always listened to and appreciated Jewish music. He recalled attending ...

Cantor Stuart Simon has sung the prayer Adon Olam to hundreds of melodies over his four decades at Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation in Northfield. He sings and plays guitar for seniors and 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 Elena Zarkh immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union in 1979, settled in Los Angeles, earned acceptance to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and got ordained.

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 ...

He was said to have sung while still in the crib, and toured Eastern European synagogues before he was 10. And that was just the beginning. By the... Yossele Rosenblatt: The Cantor With The Heavenly ...

Long before cantors were household names in America, they were hidden treasures in the Hasidic heartlands of Europe. From its beginnings in the 18th century, the Hasidic movement placed song and ...