At New London Synagogue Cantor Heller, September 13, 2023September 13, 2023 An evening of song invited by the song shul of Canada in their tour with Cantor Simon and Mrs Aliza Spiro. Hosting at New London Synagogue it’s Cantor Yoav Oved and guest Cantor David Rome who shared songs composed by British Jewish composers accompanied by the excellent pianist Leo Nicholson. In the audience friends from Belsize Square Synagogue as well as scholars Alex Knapp and Charles Heller, Geraldine Auerbach MBE, my dear friend Cantor Moshe Dubiner between others. Al little taste of my contribution which was not from a British composer, but to honour music and our Creator. Related Hazzanut Music
Hazzanut The High Holy days music at Belsize Square Synagogue September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 The capability to live stream, and archive, our services, allows me the luxury of being able to review, and edit, our important musical legacy. I’d like to share one such development. It’s a new composition by Dr Benjamin Wolf, our synagogue’s Music Director, Choir Master and Composer that was commissioned… Read More
Hazzanut Louis Lewandowski’s 200th anniversary May 19, 2021October 21, 2022 Louis Lewandowski 1821-2021 Keeping the legacy of Louis LewandowskiFrom a lecture at the European Cantors Association, Prague 2016 Cantor Dr. Paul Heller Tina Frühauf has given us a book that is as much about Jewish identity as it is about music. She presents the organ as a marker of Jewish… Read More
Hazzanut Kristallnacht Commemoration Shabbat November 7, 2026November 8, 2026 Each year, our Shabbat service at Belsize Square Synagogue marks Kristallnacht. This year, 88 years after the November pogrom of 1938, we remember it as the night that ended any illusion of safety for German Jewry, and as the beginning of the story of this congregation, founded by those who… Read More