The families were attending a dinner sponsored by New York-based Israeli power couple Natalie Hister Ostad and Edward Ostad at Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side.
My interview with Chazan Nissim Saal was a long time coming, due to his busy travel schedule. We planned to touch base on motzaei Shabbos to nail down a time for the sit down. Initially, we assumed that the interview would take place by phone but in the end, we settled on a Zoom conversation. […]
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Cantors World Hosts Virtual Online Pre-Pesach Chazanim Concert By Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq. | March 11, 2021
I may have been the only listener to the international pre-Pesach online Leil Shimurim concert of chazanim to enjoy the narration by the master of ceremonies, Cantors World co-founder Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky, more than I enjoyed the essence of the concert itself. However, that’s just a reflection on how little I know about chazanut and how much I appreciate the spoken word. Cantor Rogosnitzky’s remarks were spoken in both Hebrew and English, so I was able to savor each of his presentations twice as he wove a description of each chazan into a description of each piece to be sung.