Central Synagogue Podcast
Central Synagogue
This is the podcast/audio archive of Manhattan's historic Central Synagogue- featuring sermons, music, lectures and conversations. Central Synagogue works tirelessly toward a world in which Judaism is central to the lives of people everywhere and is a profound and positive force for humanity.
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Aug 30, 2024 • 9min
SERMON: Rabbi Hilly Haber, "The Season of Love: Elul 5784" - August 30, 2024
Sermon by Rabbi Hilly Haber, "The Season of Love: Elul 5784"August 30, 2024
Aug 30, 2024 • 27min
Finding Calm in the Psalms: Rabbi Cantor Shani Ben-Or
Our psalms call for us to sing out a "shir hadash," a new song. Rabbi Cantor Shani Ben-Or shares with Rabbi Andrew Kaplan Mandel how she and her colleagues at the Niggunim Ensemble did just that with their version of Psalm 96.
Aug 23, 2024 • 11min
SERMON: Rabbi Sivan Rotholz, "Vulnerability is the Language of Connection" - August 23, 2024
Sermon by Rabbi Sivan Rotholz, "Vulnerability is the Language of Connection"August 23, 2024
Aug 23, 2024 • 16min
Finding Calm in the Psalms: Rabbi Josh Warshawsky
Kabbalat Shabbat often achieves lift-off at Central Synagogue with Rabbi Josh Warshawsky's Psalm 95, Lechu Neranena. The composer speaks with Rabbi Andrew Kaplan Mandel about how he constructed this layered, rhythmic, and joyful setting.
Aug 16, 2024 • 12min
SERMON: Cantor Jenna Pearsall - "Music: A Connector of Hearts"
Sermon by Jenna Pearsall, "Music: A Connector of Hearts" August 16, 2024
Aug 16, 2024 • 18min
Finding Calm in the Psalms: Daphna Rosenberg
Sharing one of the gorgeous original melodies flowing from Jerusalem's Nava Tehila spiritual community, Daphna Rosenberg speaks with Cantor Jenna Pearsall about Psalm 92, "Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbat."
Aug 9, 2024 • 12min
SERMON: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl"Scouting Out Destruction, And Hope: Tisha B’Av 2024"
Sermon by Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, "Scouting Out Destruction, And Hope: Tisha B’Av 2024" August 9th, 2024
Aug 9, 2024 • 22min
Finding Calm in the Psalms: Rabbi Shefa Gold
An expert practitioner in the art of Jewish chant, Rabbi Shefa Gold describes to Rabbi Andrew Kaplan Mandel how her now-famous setting of "Ashrei" from Psalm 84 helps her enter the house of the Eternal.
Aug 2, 2024 • 10min
SERMON: Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal "The Project of Peoplehood"
Sermon by Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal, "The Project of Peoplehood" August 2nd, 2024
Aug 2, 2024 • 19min
Finding Calm in the Psalms: Rabbi Karyn Kedar
In the third of Rabbi Nicole Auerbach's three-part mini-series interviewing poets, Rabbi Karyn Kedar shares how the psalms have come to matter in her own life -- sometimes with the help of her own pen.
