Led by Cantor Kari Siegel Eglash and Cantor Rachel Gottlieb Kalmowitz
David Strickland, Piano and Joe Eglash, Guitar

Freedom is the foundation of who we are as American Jews – it informs every moment of our lives. When our freedom is impinged upon, we feel it keenly. When freedom of others is impinged upon, we feel it just as keenly, for we know what it is like to be the stranger. We have endeavored to craft a service celebrating freedom by weaving new and familiar, raising secular to holiness, and drawing from many sources inside and outside of our siddur. There are so many ways to pray, and it is our privilege to freely explore new combinations and expressions with you. Let Freedom Sing!

Page              Prayer/Composer                                                                        

6                      Hinei Mah Tov Medley – Folk arr. Eglash/Chassidic arr. Meisels

Opening kavanah

24                   Bar’chu – Noah Aronson

26                   God of Creation (Maariv Aravim) – Natalie Young

Going Deeper – Anne Powell

Be Here Now – Ray LaMontagne

30                   Sh’ma – Sulzer

32                   V’ahavtah/ trope

Geulah – Ruth H. Sohn

36                   Mi Chamocha – Lisa Levine

38                   Hashkiveinu – Michelle Citrin

102                Adonai S’fatai – Aronson

104-106         Avot v’imahot/G’vurot – nusach

108                             Iyun – K’dushat Hashem

112-121                     Silent Amidah

122                 Grateful – John Bucchino

T’filat haleiv

128                 Meditation – Marshall Portnoy arr. Andrew Bernard

186                 Aleinu – Trad

Yizkor – Morris Adler

193                            Kaddish Yatom                                                       

193                 Oseh Shalom – Michael Hunter Ochs arr. Eliot Glaser

Azkarah for Leah Elstein delivered by Rebecca Moses and David Unterman delivered by Lauren Bandman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cantor Kari Siegel Eglash joined the leadership team at Temple Concord in Syracuse, NY as its cantor and educator in 2014, and has enriched this historic community with innovative musical and educational programming. Ordained as cantor in 2001 from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, where she also received her Master’s degree in Sacred Music, Cantor Eglash served two congregations before coming to Syracuse: Temple Chaverim in Plainview, NY and Temple Israel in Tulsa, OK.

While studying for her Master’s theses, Cantor Eglash enrolled in the Weinreich Summer Yiddish Program at Columbia University where she indulged in her love for all things Yiddish. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Cantor Eglash’s journey to the cantorate took her from Beloit College, where she earned her BA in history, to Tata, Hungary, where she taught English to high-school students, to five years in the business world of investment and finance. Through all of these experiences her, love of Judaism, history, teaching, and music remained strong and led her to her true calling—the life of a cantor. She is so honored to have this opportunity to lead t’filot among colleagues and friends.

 

Cantor Rachel Gottlieb Kalmowitz is honored to have served Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Hills since 2004, and recently graduated in the first cohort of the Cantorial Certification program through Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.  She was a District Winner in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, is a soloist on the compact disc of Jack Gottlieb’s music released for the Milken Archive of Jewish Music by Naxos, and also served as a co-chair of the 2011 ACC/GTM Convention in Boston.  Rachel received a Master of Music in voice performance from University of Michigan, with degrees from Eastman School of Music and Interlochen Arts Academy, and currently lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with her husband, Carey, and daughter, Ilana.  Rachel considers her role as a cantor to be one of creating sacred moments for and holy relationships with her congregants – through her music, her words, and her humanity.

 

Hi, I’m David Strickland, Music Director at Central Synagogue, NY, NY, and I’ve been a part of this amazing community for over 10 years. Working with my incredible colleagues, particularly those on the music and clergy teams, is and has been a great gift. Jewish music is a treasure trove of inexhaustible musical genres over a vast time period and at Central, we try to do a bit of everything from world music, to contemporary pop and rock, hazzanut and classical. A typical Friday night will include cantors, choir, piano, organ, guitar, violin, clarinet, recorder, bass and percussion. Through an eclectic approach, we try to use a language that will speak to as many different people as possible as we help lead prayer and create connection with each other.