IDF cantor: ‘After the funerals, I would just fall apart’ Throughout the war, Daniel Colthof, a reserve cantor from the Military Rabbinate, found himself running from one funeral to the next. Hanan Greenwood May 17, 2024
Life back to normal for cantor who donated kidney “The joke was that maybe the guy who got my kidney would become a good singer,” Yitzy Spinner told JNS. Alan Zeitlin March 12, 2024
Oh, say, can she sing … Cantor Abbie Strauss belted out “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a pre-season game between the Minnesota Twins and the St. Louis Cardinals in Florida. Bill Motchan March 7, 2024
Hundreds of rabbis, cantors, others to observe public fast on Oct. 12 Throughout Jewish history, public fasts have responded to and beseeched God for mercy at times of great pain and uncertainty. Howard Blas Oct. 11, 2023
Accompanying families of fallen soldiers, albeit by their sides online IDF chief cantor tweaks the program, but gets to share prayers and his voice—a “gift,” he says, which can be used significantly as everyone is homebound to stop the spread of COVID-19. Yaakov Lappin April 28, 2020
Tapping into the ‘Golden Age’ of cantorial music for the 21st century Ordained Chabad rabbi and cantor Aryeh Leib Hurwitz has traveled the world honing his voice and performing skills, and is now part of an effort to revive the classic tradition of “chazzonus,” the quasi-operatic Jewish music of more than a century ago. Carin M. Smilk Aug. 13, 2018
