Guest Blogger

A Tribute to Cantor Jacob Mendelson

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The following sermon was delivered by Rabbi Michael Goldman of Temple Israel Center on the occasion of my last Shabbat. Probably everyone here has some sort of memory of a musical conversion experience. The first time—or maybe it was the hundredth time—you heard a certain piece or genre of music or artist. Where and how […]

Thoughts About Chazzanut

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My first guest blogger is Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, D.D. She is, among other things, a brilliant liturgist, and teacher of liturgy and homiletics at the Hebrew Union College. She joined me at my congregation this year for the Holy Days. Below are her reflections on her prayer experience at my shul. —Jackie