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Rosenblatt’s setting of Kaddish is probably the most recognizable of all the High Holiday music. In this version, the energy is high as members of the MET Brass and the PAS band loosen their ties and offer Kaddish as you’ve never heard it before!

How do you end a cycle of services with hundreds of pieces of music – from the most ancient melodies to brand new commissioned music – in all kinds of styles? On a high note, of course! In the case of Cantor Schwartz, that note is pretty high.

Think of all the times you’ve heard the shofar; of all the different sounds you’ve heard from all shapes and sizes of shofars, from the first time you can remember all the way through last year, when you might have heard it only virtually.

This New Year, we can create spiritual gates to open for ourselves, and attending High Holiday services is one such opportunity.

It might seem like Avinu Malkeinu Z’khor is inward-looking. Yet the key is found at the end of the prayer – we ask these things not only for ourselves and those near to us, but for all our brothers and sisters.

"‘Here I Stand’ – Hineni – the most sublime prayer of the Holiday season.

High Holidays are a month away - we can’t wait to welcome you back! Psalm 27 expresses the hope of Elul, preparing for the Days of Awe. Wishing you a Shabbat shalom and Hodesh tov!

The Summer Olympic Games are an example of youth in full flower, yet it is the nature of humanity to grow older.

While doing research on strong Jewish women at the British Library, Judy Batalion came across an old, dusty Yiddish book. Freuen in di Ghettos (Women in the Ghettos) was a thriller about “ghetto girls” who

It is exciting that this medieval text has received a fresh melody - its reverse-acrostic structure and poetic progression is echoed in the harmonic progression of the music. Looking forward to the High Holidays six weeks from now, we hope you will join us in singing it.