JTS Cantorial Convocation, February, 2022
Program
FEBRUARY 2, 2022, 3:30 P.M. ET | 1 ADAR I 5782
VIRTUAL PROCESSION
WELCOME
Alan Levine, Esq., Chair, JTS Board of Trustees
GREETINGS
Hazzan Luis Cattan, President, Cantors Assembly
D’VAR TORAH
Hazzan Nancy Abramson, Director, H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music, JTS
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Shehecheyanu, composed by Hazzan Gerald Cohen
Performed by Hazzan Gerald Cohen and Hazzan Natasha J. Hirschhorn
REMARKS
Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Chancellor, JTS
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES
Hazzan Nancy Abramson, Director, H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music, JTS
Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, Acting Pearl Resnick Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership and The Rabbinical School; Director, Block / Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts, JTS
CONFERRAL OF HONORARY DEGREES
Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Chancellor, JTS
REMARKS ON BEHALF OF THE HONOREES
Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro
BLESSING OF THE HONOREES
Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTS
Opening music by Mike Cohen and the KleztraphobixClosing music by Hazzan Jacob Sandler from JTS’s Seeds of Peace album
Doctor of Music, honoris causa
Hazzan Benjamin Beinish Adler
Hazzan Marla Joy Rosenfeld
Barugel
Hazzan Aaron Bensoussan
Hazzan Mark Biddelman
Hazzan Scott A. Buckner
Hazzan Jean Adriane Caplowe
Hazzan Josef Chazan
Hazzan Gerald Cohen
Hazzan David Feuer
Hazzan Meir Finkelstein
Hazzan Herschel Fox
Hazzan Chayim Frenkel
Hazzan Howard K. Glantz
Hazzan Ralph Goren
Hazzan Toby Lou Hayman
Hazzan Arthur William Katlin
Hazzan Dov Keren
Hazzan Wayne Shem Krieger
Hazzan David A. Lipp
Hazzan Erica Jan Lippitz
Hazzan Jeremy C. Lipton
Hazzan Brian J. Mayer
Hazzan Joseph Ness
Hazzan Neil Stanley Newman
Hazzan Charles David Osborne
Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro
Hazzan Barry Reich
Hazzan Eugene David Rosner
Hazzan Janet Ilene Roth
Hazzan Alan H. Sokoloff
Hazzan Faith Risa Steinsnyder
Hazzan Lance H. Tapper
Hazzan Stephen Jonathan
Texon
Hazzan Lorna Wallach
Hazzan Kevin David Wartell
Hazzan Eric L. Wasser
Hazzan Cory Bradford Winter
