Rabbi Schuman’s Blog -21 June 2009

It’s been another exciting week at Beit Warszawa, featuring a visit by the noted cantor, musician, composer Mike Stein and his wife Kelly Brown Stein. Cantor Mike had us singing, clapping, toe-tapping and stretching our Jewish musical horizons this past Friday with his “Down Home Shabbat”, a very special “Sermon in Song”. On Shabbat, he joined us for Shacharit morning and later taught us some new, more traditional melodies for Shabbat morning. Our Beit Sefer Alef had its final activity for the season, a farewell picnic at a local park.

This week begins an exciting lead-up to the visit to Poland of several hundred cantors from the Cantors Assembly in North America who will be performing a series of remarkable concerts in Warsaw and in Krakow at the end of June and the beginning of July.  On Tuesday 23 June and Thursday 25 June, Cantor Lam and a few of his colleagues will conduct song workshops to help organize a “pick-up volunteer choir” for the very special service that they will be conducting at Beit Warszawa this Friday, 26 June. Please remember that due to the very high expected turnout, you must make a reservation by tomorrow afternoon, 23 June.

Reach out. Stay in touch. Become a friend, supporter and participant in the “Miracle on Wiertnicza Street.”

Kol Tuv,

Rabbi Burt Schuman