Calling our Tot Shabbat community and all families with young children! Enjoy a lively Shabbat of music and prayer with Spike for the whole family, complete with a bagel breakfast.
Broadway comes to Stern Chapel as award-winning duo lyricist Marcy Heisler and composer Zina Goldrich take center stage in The Marcy & Zina Show, a musical theater cabaret. Marcy and Zina’s romantic comedy songs have been featured in venues across the world and recorded by top artists including Kelli O'Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, Allen Cumming and...
This 45-minute documentary highlights the story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant and courageous young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He taught Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem to 150 prisoners, who then performed it 16 times for Terezín prisoners as an unspoken work of defiance against the Nazis. The film includes testimony...
Celebrate Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song, with the Temple Emanu-El Choir and MAC Artists Nigunim Ensemble, the talented Israeli duo who blend Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi and secular musical influences into arrangements that reflect the diversity of Israeli and global Jewish communities. Together we will explore our relationship with our spiritual homeland through the richness...
Cantor Rabbi Shani Ben-Or and Boaz Dorot of Nigunim Ensemble will explore Israeli music written since October 7 and share about the creativity, resilience, and strength of Israelis as they navigate wartime and work toward security and peace.
Feel uplifted at this musical gathering, featuring popular Israeli music and original compositions led by Cantor Rabbi Shani Ben-Or and Boaz Dorot of Nigunim Ensemble. The evening will include Havdalah, a ceremony of separation from Shabbat.
In preparation for ”Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín" on April 23, we invite you to immerse yourself in the music composed in Europe in the years leading up to World War II, including music by composers who would be imprisoned at Terezín. This concert is presented by Defiant Requiem conductor Ben Loeb, Defiant Requiem soprano...
Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín." Explore the history of Terezín and the role of cultural resistance in uplifting morale and preserving the prisoners’ humanity in unimaginable circumstances. Presented by...
Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín." Explore the text and meaning of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem and learn about Rafael Schächter and his choristers. Presented by Galit Gertsenzon, Ph.D., an expert...
Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín." Discover the history of “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín” production in a conversation with Maestro Murry Sidlin, founder and president of The Defiant Requiem...
