Rabbi-Cantor Jessica Hutchings will soon become the senior rabbi at Congregation Ner Tamid.

Hutchings was officially installed in a once-in-a-generation ceremony at Congregation Ner Tamid this past Friday. The ...

“Persian Jewish melodies, to my knowledge, never have been transcribed,” and Cantor Jacqueline Rafii of Valley Beth Shalom has made it a life goal of her unique career to correct that absence. As one ...

Great for Hanukkah, 'The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City' by Henry H. Sapoznik is not your usual guidebook. In ...

Congregation Shirat Hayam in Massachusetts sheds light on one implication of a changing rabbinic marketplace. (Jewish Journal of Greater Boston via JTA) — Sarah Freudenberger has spent a lot of time ...

DANBURY — When Penny Kessler, the cantor-spiritual leader of the United Jewish Center was ordained as a cantor, she had two goals. She said she wanted to ensure that people felt a friendship and sense ...

Cantor Stephen Freedman is 71. He’s served as a clergy member for more than 40 years. He just finished a role as cantor at Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu-El, which joined up with Old York Road neighbor ...

Radnor Township and Temple Brith Achim are teaming up to bring a Chanukah festival to Radnor for the first time.

WARSAW (Reuters) - For the first time since the Holocaust, 100 Jewish cantors from around the globe are gathering to perform in Warsaw, once one of the world's leading Jewish centers, Poland's chief ...

Notable recent Jewish deaths include a powerhouse in philanthropy, a renowned cantor and the prosecutor who put “Son of Sam” behind bars. Yakov Shapiro was born in Rishon Lezion, Israel to a family ...

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's loss in a Virginia primary is a blow to the kishkes (i.e. gut) for Jewish Republicans, who are now left leaderless and without a single Jewish congressman to take ...