At the 16th European Cantor’s Convention Cantor Heller, December 6, 2024February 13, 2025 In Budapest, colleagues and friends, Hazzanim (prayer leaders) and music scholars, to share our knowledge aimed at enhancing community engagement through prayer. An example of our rehearsal can be heard here before Shabbat in the beautifully designed Rumbach Synagogue, known for its impressive architecture and intricate stucco walls. Also my participation at the gala concert in tribute to Maestro Hazzan Naftali Herstik zz”l, with whom I sung in Prague in 2016 this piece he conducted with his students of the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute. My lecture on the original organ from Temple times II BCE that demonstrates it’s more Jewish than that it has roots in the Church, as many that oppose its use in Synagogue would falsely argue. Bringing the Temple organ to the Synagogue Related Hazzanut CantorialEuropean Cantors AssociationHazzanutLewandowskiLiturgySulzer
Hazzanut In Budapest at the Rumbach Synagogue for the 14th European Cantors Association annual convention November 7, 2022October 5, 2023 Attending the 14th European Cantors Association annual convention in Budapest at this beautiful Synagogue built 1872 and restored in 2021 by the Hungarian government. For 5 days, almost a 100 of us, coming to pray from all over the world to share experiences, knowledge and our music. Two choirs joining… Read More
Hazzanut At St. Pölten Synagogue April 18, 2024April 22, 2024 By invitation of the Institute of History of Jews of Austria. I had the privilege of participating in the re-inauguration ceremony of what was once my father’s parents and family’s Synagogue in St. Pölten, Austria, which suffered from the 9th of Nov 1938 pogrom and went through several renovations. This… Read More
Hazzanut At West London Synagogue December 13, 2022January 16, 2023 As a guest of the Zemel Choir in support of World Jewish Relief in their aid to the crisis in Ukraine, I sung and prayed asking for peace and for the souls of the departed in this cruel war. Here is a little slide show of this beautiful Synagogue and… Read More