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A Cantor’s Reflection

When Binyamin Glickman looks around Los Angeles today, he sees his students. And, he is glad to say, they are doing well.

From 1962 to 1982 Glickman was cantor at Beth Jacob Congregation, a large Orthodox synagogue in Beverly Hills, and the music instructor at Hillel Hebrew Academy down the block.

As cantor, he trained countless students in his choir to lead services, and many of his students continue to do so today.

A Psalm for a Singer

It\’s tenor time in the Borscht Belt next week. The cantors are coming to the Catskills, close to 400 of them, from Conservative synagogues across the country. With spouses and sundry fans in tow, they\’ll be descending on Kutsher\’s Country Club, one of the last of the region\’s great Jewish watering holes, for three days of music and prayer. It\’s the annual convention of the Cantors\’ Assembly.

Other Voices

My father has always revered Joe Louis. Asurprising hero, perhaps, for a man born and raised in far-awayHungary. Not the hero one might expect of a Jewish cantor, whose workall his life has been singing liturgy in synagogues. Yet, among themost vivid memories I have from my childhood in Hungary and Israel,through my teen-age years in the United States, are the stories myfather told of Joe Louis.

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