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As part of a major restructuring effort, the Jewish Theological Seminary announced last week that its cantorial school, traditionally separate from the rabbinical school, will be integrated into the rabbinical school. Henry Rosenblum, the well-regarded dean of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School, will be laid off. The move provoked an outcry from the seminary’s cantorial ...

Click here to listen to Mayim Bialik explain how she learned to blow the shofar.
When I first attended High Holiday services at UCLA, as a 19-year-old college freshman in 1995, two sisters shared cantorial duties. I had never before been so moved by chanting; their singing wasn’t flowery or operatic, as it had been at ...

• Motivated by digs against Judge Sotomayor, the Anti-Defamation League is joining forces with a Latino group in Boston to fight “anti-immigrant rhetoric.” [Boston Herald]
• The San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at the remaining Jewish population in Syria. [SFC]
• Jo Amar, a renowned cantor credited with pioneering Mizrahi music, a style blending Sephardic and ...

The most revealing photo of Josef Rosenblatt shows a squat, well-fed figure decked out in a chesterfield, a high gray hat, and a golden fob and tiepin, holding a cane with a gloriously ornate knob. What stands out most are the grave, intelligent eyes behind the rakish round spectacles, and a dark beard so finely ...

Jeremiah Lockwood earned his musical chops playing the New York subway circuit with blues musician Carolina Slim. He was thirteen when they first collaborated.
But Lockwood’s music training stretches much further back. As a child, he regularly listened to the musical recordings of his grandfather, Jacob Konigsberg, a renowned cantor from Cleveland. Later, his ...