{"id":330,"date":"2021-08-02T20:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantorheller.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:50:59","slug":"weddings-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantorheller.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Weddings are back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday 1st of Aug 2021, finally Lisa and Gary had their chuppah planned before the pandemic and postponed twice, it was a memorable occasion, they hired our Sanctuary, beautifully designed for this type of ceremony, professional quartet, and organ in the loft, music as in our repertoire, this a little taste of the seventh blessing of Sheva Brachot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cantor Heller&#039;s liturgical shares\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLfEEYyQfJgBB2oWHh_rTaL5aZoRUvGCZo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday 1st of Aug 2021, finally Lisa and Gary had their chuppah planned before the pandemic and postponed twice, it was a memorable occasion, they hired our Sanctuary, beautifully designed for this type of ceremony, professional quartet, and organ in the loft, music as in our repertoire, this a little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,7,6],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cantorial-cantorial","tag-belsize-square-synagogue","tag-cantorial","tag-hazzanut"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.shortpixel.ai\/stsp\/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cantorheller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LISA_GARY_21_0019_COL-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1708&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1422,"url":"https:\/\/cantorheller.com\/?p=1422","url_meta":{"origin":330,"position":0},"title":"At the 16th European Cantor&#8217;s Convention","author":"Cantor Heller","date":"December 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In Budapest, colleagues and friends, Hazzanim (prayer leaders) and music scholars, to share our knowledge aimed at enhancing community engagement through prayer. 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