Jews, we’ll lose AmericaĪt interfaith ceremony in NYC, pope shows religion’s power to unite Israel’s Diaspora minister warns: If we lose U.S. With a ‘stylish’ spin on Judaism, a Tel Aviv synagogue beckons the Russian-speaking elite Rabbi Yehuda Amital, a founder of the Meimad movement was a good friend of my parents.” My sister Renana Eitan works in neuro-psychiatric research, and my younger brother, Udi Schwartz, a rabbi, writes halakhic decisions on behalf of Israel’s military rabbinate. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, is a groundbreaking mathematician in the field of machine learning and is the CTO of Mobileye. “My older sister is Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a well-known liberal jurist. “We’re a bit of an odd family,” he tells Haaretz. And in the sanctuary he has a penchant for unusual musical choices, some of which remind one of Broadway. He cruises the streets of Manhattan on a motorcycle and is even a member of a Harley Davidson bikers club. Schwartz himself is far from a typical cantor. Ne’ila prayer at the Park Park Avenue Synagogue, 2014. We’ve hired a digital content manager and a production manager – not exactly typical jobs in a synagogue.” “They have invested $250,000 here in technological upgrades. “We have better gear here than at Broadway theaters,” Schwartz says, as we tour the synagogue and reach its control room. Demand during the fall holidays typically outstrips supply: The jewel in the crown at the synagogue is the broadcast of High Holy Day services to hundreds of thousands of Jews in America and around the world, for which the entire building is fitted out with cameras and lighting fixtures and sound equipment. On the High Holy Days it operates two prayer halls (in the main sanctuary, on 87th Street between Park and Madison, and at a venue at 89th Street between Madison and Fifth) and rents out the church next door, as often happens in the city’s interfaith world. The Park Avenue Synagogue has been around for 140 years and constitutes the heart of New York’s large Conservative community. In Israel he has performed, among other venues, at the Knesset, the Yad Vashem Holocaust center and with the Israeli Philharmonic in Tel Aviv. A year later he performed in “The New York Cantors” televised concert, which attracted tens of millions of views in the United States and Europe. He played the part of the cantor in Israeli director Joseph Cedar’s 2017 film “Norman: The Rise and Fall of an American Macher,” starring Richard Gere. In 2016 he sang at an ecumenical prayer session in memory of the victims of 9/11, attended by the pope, among others. He’s appeared at Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, the United Nations and on Capitol Hill. In the New York davening circuit, Schwartz is a bona fide star. Today he is married to Noa, a former Tel Avivian who is a researcher and clinician in the field of rheumatology the couple have four children, ages 3 to 14. Schwartz, 40, grew up in the settlement of Alon Shvut outside Jerusalem and studied in the city’s Netiv Meir Yeshiva. In the Orthodox establishment he comes from, people like him are described as “worse than Christians.” Sometimes they are the target of threats as well. On Rosh Hashanah too he led a service at the grand Conservative synagogue – but accompanied by an orchestra of 50 New York Metropolitan Opera musicians, before a mixed male-female crowd. Be strong, take courage, and place your hope in Adonai.Azi Schwartz was up on the pulpit last week at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. If only I could trust that I would see God’s goodness in the land of the living. To behold God’s beauty and pray in God’s sanctuary…ĭo not hand me over to those who want to do me harm įor liars who breathe hatred have risen up against me. To live in the House of God all the days of my life, Whom shall I fear?Īdonai is the stronghold of my life. ameitz libekha, v’kaveh el Adonai.Īdonai is my light and my help. emanti, lirot b’tuv Adonai, b’eretz hayim.et Adonai, otah avakesh, shivti b’veit Adonai, kol y’mei hayai, lahazot b’no.L’david Adonai uri v’yish-i mimi ira, Adonai ma’oz hayai mimi efhad…Īhat sha
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