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09/07

 Kickoff Breakfast for 2008-2009

09/20-10/21

 Holy Day Schedules

10/19

 Sisterhood's Fight Breast Cancer Walk-A-Thon

10/24-26

 Kallah 2008 - A Learning Retreat

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 Renaissance Trip to NY Museum of Jewish Heritage

 

Religious School Registration

Currently registering new students in Grades K-3.

NOTE: To qualify for Bar/Bat Mitzvah, all  students

must be enrolled by 3rd Grade.

For more information, contact Elisa Juros,

Education Director,732.566.2961

Celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of our Beautiful Social Hall

Saturday, November 1st, 7 pm

With

Food & Drink, Music & Joyful Camaraderie

As we toast to the successful, grand renovation of our “New” multi-use social hall.

Details available soon.

Choir Rehearsals Have Begin

We are rehearsing for the High Holidays on

Monday at 8:00PM and run approximately to 9:45PM

 For more information, contact our choir director  Pam Momyer.

KICKOFF BREAKFAST  




You are invited to enjoy breakfast in our beautiful newly-renovated Social Hall.   Join your friends, your Temple Shalom family, noshFootball player kicking footballand learn about events and programs we have planned for you in the upcoming Jewish year 5769.   We look forward to seeing you at the kick-off for the New Year at Temple Shalom.

FRONT PAGE ARTICLE  

Published by Temple Shalom of Aberdeen, NJ Vol. XLVI No. 1 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008

 


B’ruchim habaim Cantor Marnie Camhi

New cantor looks forward to singing and learning together


Cantor Marnie Camhi with female student

Cantor Marnie Camhi helps B’nai Mitzvah student Jordana Schechner-Kanofsky prepare for her September service.

 

Installation:  Welcome Cantor Camhi at her installation service on Fri., Sept. 12, 8:15pm

 

As a girl, Cantor Marnie Camhi was always very active in her home congregation in Long Island, singing with the junior choir, attending religious school and being a member of the youth group. It wasn’t until she was in ninth grade that everything took on a different meaning for her.

 

“When I was in ninth grade, we got a new cantor–a woman,” Cantor Camhi relates. “Before her, I never knew that a woman could be a cantor. She mentored me and inspired me to become a cantor. It was a way to join my two passions–music and Judaism–and have a fulfilling career. So at the age of 14, I found my path and started my journey to becoming a cantor.”

 

And Cantor Camhi’s journey has led her finally to Temple Shalom, where the congregation has taken her in with much anticipation and excitement. Cantor Camhi started her duties in July, leading services with Rabbi Malinger and teaching B’Nai Mitzvah students and says she already feels very welcome at TempleShalom.

 

“My first impression of Temple Shalom is how warm and welcoming everyone has been–it really is like a close family here,” she said.

 

“The thing I’m looking forward to most about being the cantor at Temple Shalom is becoming part of the fabric of what makes Temple Shalom Temple Shalom. I look forward to singing with the congregation and learning together.”

 

At Temple Shalom, the cantor is the keeper of the Jewish musical traditions and is responsible for transmitting this knowledge and history to the congregation through leading worship services with Rabbi Malinger, participating in life cycle events, teaching in the religious school and working with both the Junior and Senior Choirs. Cantor Camhi will also responsible for maintaining the Bar and Bat Mitzvah program, where students learn to read and chant liturgy, Torah and Haftarah portions.

 

Cantor Camhi will work personally with each student, ensuring the strong relationship between the students and their cantor.

 

“It has been said that, ‘To sing is to have prayed twice.’ It is my hope, as your cantor, to raise our collective voice in prayer through song. Music is the lifeblood of prayer–it is connected to memories, life cycle events and holidays. Music we heard as children in the synagogue and in the home stay with us throughout our lives and when we hear that particular prayer melody, it is as if we have come home.

 

“Synagogue music today is about combining those familiar melodies with more new and contemporary ones–it is about finding that balance between the traditional and the new.”

 

A native of Wantagh, Long Island, Cantor Camhi is a member of the American Conference of Cantors and was invested as a cantor in 2006 and received her Master of Sacred Music Degree in 2005 from The School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She most recently served as the cantor of Temple B’nai Shalom in East Brunswick.

 


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