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Week after week, generation after generation,

Jews turn to sacred singers for aesthetic and emotional support. The cantorate is a vocation that is both a calling and a profession. This servant of the congregation is much more than the traditional messenger to God. The job of the chazan is extraordinarily rich in cultural, social, and personal symbolism, negotiated between the congregation and its chosen voices.
From Chosen Voices, by Mark Slobin

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Rabbi Dr. Allan Nadler, Narrator Cantor Asher Hainovitz, Soloist Cantor Gideon Zelermyer, Soloist The Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue Choir Stephen Glass, Musical Director and Producer

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FOUNDING CHAIR S HARRON F EIFER , C HAIR F ELICITY B LATT C ANTOR S IDNEY S. DWORKIN S TEPHEN G LASS TAMARA G REENBERG NAOMI K ASSIE C AROL KOFFLER K ARYS M ARCUS DAVID M ENDELSON D EANNA M ENDELSON M ARIAN S CHAUBER A RLENE S CHER S YLVIA S CHNEIDERMAN D R . B ERNARD S HAPIRO B ETTY S IMAK M ERLE S TERN C ANTOR G IDEON Y. Z ELERMYER

Dear Friends: As Chair of the Hazzan Mendelson Music Foundation, it is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome to you all. Tonights concert, thanks to the unique talents of the various participants, will present the cantor through a rich prism of narrative and visuals created for this special evening. The Foundations ability to present 29 years of memorable concerts and related Jewish musical events to the community at large is due to the foresight and generosity of our many benefactors. The number of patrons has expanded significantly over the years, from the original 30 founding patrons, and the number continues to grow. Our heartfelt thanks to our family of patrons. I would also like to draw attention to the members of the Foundation Committee who are listed on this page. Their participation and support is invaluable in helping us to plan these concert events and in ensuring their success. We appreciate, as well, the encouragement and support of the Synagogues Officers, Executive and Board, the Executive Director, Penni Kolb and the all the members of the Shaar staff. It is particularly gratifying that tonights concert is also an occasion to host the opening of the Second International Yiddish Theatre Festival. Bruchim Habaim to all those involved and to our honoured guests from Beersheva, Israel. The Segal Centres very exciting program is highlighted in the brochures on your seats. I know you will enjoy this evening and look forward to celebrating our 30th anniversary with you in 2012. Sharron Feifer Foundation Chair

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Dear Friends: It is my pleasure to extend greetings to you on behalf of the family of the late Hazzan Nathan Mendelson, zl. It is hard to believe that almost 30 years have passed since the late Laddie Kert, zl, almost single-handedly undertook to create the Hazzan Nathan Mendelson Music Foundation at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. The Foundation has lived up to its promise to keep alive the memory and influence of my late father by showcasing a wide variety of Jewish musical events to the community that reflect the values my father held dear. These concerts have thrilled audiences of thousands and are a fitting tribute and living memorial to Hazzan Mendelson. A hearty yasher koach to our Foundation Chair, Sharron Feifer. Deepest appreciation is extended to Stephen Glass, the Shaars Director of Music, Cantor Gideon Zelermyer, and Rabbi Dr. Allan Nadler who have all played such a pivotal role in bringing this concert to fruition. It is a special pleasure to welcome Cantor Asher Hainovitz from Jerusalem. I would like to acknowledge the important contribution made by Deanna Mendelson, who drafted an initial sketch of the design of the poster used for much of our publicity, including the cover page of tonights program book. May we be privileged to meet together at future concert evenings presented by the Foundation. Thank you all for your presence this evening. Enjoy the concert. David Mendelson Member, Foundation Committee

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Dear Friends: Tonights special concert, The Voice of the Cantor: From Shtetl to Stage, marks the opening of the 2nd Montreal International Yiddish Theatre Festival. There are over 80 events, including theatre performances, films, a scholarly symposium, a Zumerfest concert in the park, nightly KlezKabarets, lectures, workshops and more! I am delighted that the Hazzan Nathan Mendelson Music Foundation of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim is hosting us tonight. How fitting it is, given that Congregation Shaar Hashomayim is celebrating its 165th year as the oldest and largest traditional Ashkenazic Congregation in Canada. The Cantor played an iconic role in shtetl life. So much of our Yiddish music is imbued with the sounds of the synagogue and the contribution of cantors and synagogue composers to the music of Yiddish theatre and film is legendary. We encourage all of you to look through the Festival Guide! 150 international artists and scholars from 10 countries are ready to share their talent and ideas with you at this Festival! Come celebrate the joy of Yiddish! Dos lid is di musik fun der neshome!

Bryna Wasserman Artistic Director Segal Centre for Performing Arts

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Hazzan Nathan Mendelson, zl

azzan Nathan (Nechemiah) Mendelson, zl, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1907. He obtained his early Hebrew education and learned the modes of prayer-chant (nusach) from his father, Rabbi Jacob Benzion Morein Mendelson, zl, an eminent halachic publicist and Lubavitcher Hassid who occupied prominent pulpits in Glasgow and Newark, N. J. Hazzan Mendelson continued his religious education at Yeshiva Rabenu Isaac Elchanan, now part of Yeshiva University. He earned a B.Sc. at the College of the City of New York, where he took the premedical course, and completed New Jersey Law School where he received the degree of L.L.B. He studied voice with some of the outstanding teachers and cantors of the New York Metropolitan area. He was trained as a Mohel by his father-in-law, Rev. H. L. Chazin, zl, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey and initiated thousands of children into the Covenant of Abraham from the time of his arrival in Montreal in 1938. He was married to the late Mae Mendelson, zl, who was also active in the musical life of the Congregation and frequently provided piano accompaniment for concert performances. He was subsequently married to Rhoda Mendelson, zl. Cantor Mendelson served as Hazzan of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim from 1938 to 1973, when he was appointed Hazzan Emeritus and continued to serve until his untimely passing on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, 1977. As a lawyer, ordained Rabbi, Talmudic scholar, musician and Mohel, Hazzan Mendelson had a profound influence on all members of the Congregation and Montreal Jewish community whose lives he touched. He symbolized a synthesis of the best in Jewish religious and musical traditions, combined with openness to new thought and forms of articulation. Hazzan Mendelson composed many liturgical and art compositions, a number of which have been published. A cantata, Jerusalem: City of Vision and Prayer, for which he composed the music, had its premiere performance in 1976 in New York. His Rabbi Chanania Ben Akashya has been recorded by world-renowned Cantors. He was a founding member and Past President of the Cantors Assembly of America and of the Council of Hazzanim of Greater Montreal. Throughout his life, he was deeply involved in work for Israel and Zionism, Torah and Jewish culture and the dissemination and interpretation of Jewish Music. May his memory live on for a blessing.
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The Hazzan Nathan Mendelson Music Foundation

he year 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the Hazzan Nathan Mendelson Music Foundation of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. The Foundation was established in 1982 to honour the life and memory of Nathan Mendelson, zl.

The creation of the Hazzan Nathan Mendelson Music Foundation was largely due to the efforts of Shaar Hashomayims late S. Laddie Kert, zl, founding chair. Laddie undertook a major fundraising campaign that engaged 30 founding patrons who held Hazzan Mendelson in high esteem. New patrons continue to come forward. The Foundation remains true to its longstanding commitment that the capital remain in perpetuity and only the interest be used to subsidize or fully fund the concerts and other undertakings of the Foundation. The Foundation has developed objectives centering on performance and creativity. Thus, the Foundation not only presents important Jewish musical works to the public but also seeks to foster their creation. Over the 29-year period of 1982 2011, the Foundation has presented twenty-one concerts and diverse Jewish musical events. These have featured choral, cantorial, operatic, and instrumental genres highlighting Canadian composers, music of the Holocaust, music of prayer as well as classical and modern repertoire, lectures and Shabbaton weekends, performed by local, Canadian and international artists.

Please consider making a donation to the Hazzan Nathan Mendelson Music Foundation.

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Inaugural Concert: Srul Irving Glick and Beth Tikvah Choir of Toronto; April 11, 1982. The Jewish Connection in Nineteenth Century Music; Prof. Elaine Brody, NYU; Feb. 6, 1983. * Live In Concert: Attarah Hazzan, Soprano and Abraham Barak, Tenor; June 7, 1983. ** Musica Camerata Montreal featuring works by outstanding Jewish composers; March 22, 1984. * Rabbi Cantor Avraham Feder: Songs From the Jewish Soul A Jewish Experience in Words and Music; April 7, 1984.** The Ron Am Choir, Alexander Brott, conducting; soloists Barbara Burak and Cantor Sidney S. Dworkin; April 10, 1985. The Classical Duo Of Montreal with Erica Wilner, flute, and Davis Joachim, guitar; June 10, 1985. * Cello and Piano Recital featuring Leo Grinhauz, cello, and Berta Rosenohl-Grinhauz, piano; March 20, 1986. * Fredda Rakusin Mendelson, Mezzo-soprano and Hazzan Jacob Ben Zion Mendelson, Tenor; May 8, 1986.** Shabbaton with Dr. Saul P. Wachs, musicologist and educator; May 29-30, 1987. Gala Concert: Great Works of Jewish Opera and Oratorio, Judith Lechter, Beverly McGuire, Cantor S. Dworkin, Gerald Glower and Desmond Byrne; Nov. 24, 1988.** Music Out of the Holocaust: A Tribute to Terezin, with David Bloch, Emilie Berendson; McGill Faculty of Music String Quartet; Feb. 25, 1990. East Meets West: A Gala Cantorial Concert, Cantors A. Bensoussan, S. Dworkin, D. Feuer and D. Gildar; Y. Subar, Soloist; Oct. 23, 1990. A Young Artists Recital, Joshua Grundman, Piano, Yegor Dyachkov, Cello and Jill Rothberg, Flute; Esfir Dyachkov, piano; May 16, 1991. Concert For Peace, 15 finalists, International Jewish Song Competition; orchestra, Stephen Glass; Nov. 22, 1992. The Zamir Chorale of Boston with Joshua Jacobson, Music Director; Oct. 15, 1994. Cantorial Exchange Shabbat, Cantor Jeremy Lawson of London England; June 16, 2001. An Evening In Concert With Kenny Karen; April 8, 2003. Finding Elazar A documentary feature film, starring Neil Shicoff, directed by Paula Heil Fisher; March 31, 2005. A Cantors Tale Film and Concert, Cantors Jacob Mendelson, S. Dworkin and G. Zelermyer; Shaar Choir, S. Glass; Nov. 7, 2005. 25th Anniversary Gala Concert Highlights from 25 Years of Great Music; Oct. 28, 2007
*Co-sponsored with Canadian Jewish Congress Committee **Professor Barry Wiesenfeld, zl, accompanist

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he synagogue cantor (Hebrew: chazan, plural chazanim) is a prayer leader. He is not a priest or cleric but an individual chosen by the congregation to be a messenger for them and lead them in their prayers. The position has evolved and developed over many centuries. Initially, it called for someone familiar with the texts who was fluent in Hebrew. This was long before printing existed and at a time when manuscripts were scarce. Over the years, other important qualifications emerged as being fundamental to the role. The chazan was expected to be well-versed in the contents and meanings of the prayers and highly proficient in all the various prayer modes and ancient melodies which are associated with the liturgy and which characterise different days and even times of day in the Jewish year. He was expected to have a pleasant voice, clear diction and an ability to create an atmosphere of prayer and to move the congregation to enter into it. Nowadays, he may also be called upon to minister in other ways to the community beyond the synagogue services.

Louis Lewandowski, composer (1821-1894)

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Over the many centuries and lands of Jewish dispersion, the style of the chant of the chazan (chazanut) has varied greatly and has often been influenced by the surrounding culture. Since the prayer texts are more or less the same everywhere, we find a familiar picture richly painted in many alternative colours. The Ashkenazi cantor is expected to inspire the congregation with a depth of expression reflecting the nature and meaning of the many facets of Jewish prayer: pleading, confession, contrition, adoration, triumph, pathos, recollection of times past, hopes for the future, grief at loss beyond words. Within the traditional prayer modes he is allowed, indeed expected, to extemporise freely but always keeping within or returning to the applicable mode, its scale and cadences. This calls for considerable skill and flexibility and vocal dexterity.

Gershon Sirota (1874-1943)

Yossele Rosenblatt (1882-1933)

Mordechai Hershman (1888-1940)

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t the end of the 19th Century, many Ashkenazim fled westwards from Tsarist persecution. Their style of service and music was more fervent and participatory, but less orderly than the German style. The prayer modes and set melodies show more Asian and less European influence. The style of chazanut likewise is more intricate, melismatic, and florid. For the Jews in Eastern Europe, cut off from general European culture, concerts, opera etc., the chazan provided a musical treat, almost an entertainment, to satisfy their senses. Chazanut there had developed to some extent for this very purpose, with non-Jewish tunes occasionally introduced, despite the frowns of rabbis. In addition, the arrival of sound recording at the beginning of the 20th Century had encouraged a series of Eastern European chazanim with remarkable voices to make gramophone records which were eagerly bought by the masses. The influence of recording may itself have excited these singers to indulge in the most extraordinary vocal acrobatics and coloraturas with prodigious

Ben-Zion Kapov-Kagan (1899-1953)

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flexibility, much of which may have been unknown before. The first chazan to record was the legendary Sirota in 1902. A golden age of recorded and concert chazanut followed, magnificent voices that we can still hear: Karniol, Meisels, Rutman, Kwartin, Katchko, Steinberg, Rosenblatt, Hershman, Vigoda, Rapaport, Shlisky, Roitman, Pinchik, the four Koussevitsky brothers, Chagy, Alter, Glantz. A later generation gave us Moyshe Oysher, Richard Tucker, Jan Peerce, Leibele Waldman, and others who were able to appear on the opera stage and in films. Some of these listed as well as many others were chazancomposers who reworked the traditional melodies and wrote new ones; and their recorded versions have become traditional. Chazanut is a peculiar treasure of the Jewish people. More directly than any other means it enables us to glimpse a world we have lost and to share the experience and devotion of our forebears. For centuries, Chazanim preserved and evolved the deepest and often agonised expression of the Jew at prayer. For us today, they look to the past and to the future. VICTOR TUNKEL

Pierre Pinchik (1900-1971)

Moishe Oysher (1906-1958)

Moshe Ganchoff (1905-1997), David Kusevitzky (1911-1985), Moshe Koussevitzky (1899-1966)

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Rabbi Dr. Allan Nadler, narrator

abbi Dr. Allan Nadler is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey. Prior to his appointment at Drew in 1998, Dr. Nadler was, for seven years, the Director of Research at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. He has taught Jewish Studies courses at McGill, Cornell and New York Universities. In 2005 Dr. Nadler was Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where he had previously been a faculty member from 1982-1990.

Rabbi Nadler has served the Charles River Park Synagogue in Boston and Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, and the Fort Tryon Jewish Center in Manhattan, and for the past six years has been High Holy Day rabbi at Congregation Beth Sholom in Toronto. Dr. Nadler has published more than 200 articles, reviews and essays in numerous scholarly and popular journals and newspapers such as Commentary, The New Republic, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Judaism, Tradition, Modern Judaism, The New York Times, Newsday, Forward, The Jewish Week, and The Baltimore Jewish Times. Currently he is a feature writer for the web magazine Jewish Ideas Daily. Dr. Nadler is the author of: Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) and The Hasidim in America (American Jewish Committee Monograph, 1995). The forthcoming collection of his articles, Rabbis, Rebbes & Rebels: Polemics of Jewish Intellectual History in the Early Modern Period is planned for publication in 2012. Prof. Nadler is currently working on a new book about the history of heresy, to be published by Princeton University Press. Allan Nadler grew up in Outremont, in a home and environment filled with the sounds of Chazanut. His late father, Joseph Yosl Nadler, lived during the waning years of the Golden Age of Chazanut. Himself a trained cantor who led High Holy Day services at Shaar Hashomayims Parallel Service and was cantor of the synagogue in Burlington Vermont, Yosl Nadler studied cantorial music under Dovid Roitman and Ephraim Schlepack, and imbued in his son a deep and abiding love of Chazanut.
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antor Asher Hainovitz is a Jerusalem-born, fifth generation Sabra. Yeshivah-educated, he graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem and learned with Zalman Rivlin, dean of Jerusalem cantors. He served in Tzahal and occupied cantorial positions in Pretoria, South Africa and in St. Johns Wood, London. Since 1977, he has been Cantor of the Yeshurun Central Synagogue and is the longest-serving cantor in Jerusalem. Cantor Hainovitz was influenced by Classical Hazzanut but his first love is Yiddish and he is an expert in singing Yiddish Lied, folk and classical music. He established the annual Yom Haatzmaut Concert in Jerusalem in 1979 that has continued to this day. His recording of a six CD anthology of Nusach of the High Holy Days has become perhaps the most popular recorded encyclopedia of Nusach for the Yamim Noraim. This is Cantor Hainovitzs Montreal debut.

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Cantor Gideon Yechiel Zelermyer, soloist

antor Gideon Yechiel Zelermyer has earned himself a reputation as a Chazan with a glorious lyric tenor voice, impeccable musical taste and a cantorial style that blends the best of the traditional with the modern.

Gideon studied at the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute with Cantor Naftali Herstik, Chief Cantor of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, Raymond Goldstein, composer-inresidence at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, and Cantor Chaim Feifel. During this time, Cantor Zelermyer officiated on many occasions at Shabbat and Festival services at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, and made frequent appearances as soloist with the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir. In 2004, Gideon became the Cantor of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. In 2006, he was the featured soloist in Shaar Hashomayims 160th Anniversary Concert with Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Congregations Israel @ 60 Celebration in 2008. Gideons considerable knowledge of opera and his close connection with the Tucker family led to the spectacular multi-media event, A Concert in Tribute to Richard Tucker in 2010. In May 2011, Cantor Zelermyer and the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue Choir released the highly anticipated recording, The Music of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim: Volume 1 Shehecheyanu to critical acclaim.

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tephen Glass was born in London, England. From an early age, he displayed a keen musical ability which was nurtured and developed first at home and then through formal piano lessons, and singing solos and duets in the synagogue.

After completing his musical studies at the University of East Anglia, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and at the London College of Music, Stephen left the UK in 1990 to take up the position of Director of Music at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Since then, in addition to developing the synagogue male-choir into a first-class ensemble, Stephen has also established mixed voice, teen and children's choirs. He has conducted four multi-media concerts with symphony orchestra and chorus in the Main Sanctuary, celebrating Congregation Shaar Hashomayims 150th and 160th Anniversaries and the 50th and 60th Anniversaries of the establishment of the State of Israel. He has introduced a wide variety of musical programming including concerts and lectures. Stephen is recognised as an exceptional communicator, conductor, accompanist, arranger and composer of Jewish music and for his extraordinary ability to motivate and inspire young and old. In addition, he is widely respected as an arranger with a rich harmonic palette, a composer with a strong melodic instinct and as an accompanist par excellence.

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The Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue Choir

he Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue Choir is a highly regarded allJewish, all-male ensemble. It sings every Shabbat and at Festival and High Holy Day Services throughout the year. The choir is often asked to sing at wedding ceremonies as well as Cantorial Concerts and communal events. All the vocal arrangements that the choir sings are crafted specifically for the malevoice group. The method of arrangement and broad harmonic palette, combined with the style of singing, produces a very distinctive and blended sound which has been widely praised.

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Patrons
The Hazzan Nathan Mendelson Music Foundation was made possible by many benefactors to whom we express our grateful appreciation. We thank in particular, those founder patrons whose generosity established this project, in perpetuity.
MARCEL ADAMS JACOB & THERESE ATTIAS DAVID AZRIELI, C.M., L.L.D. & STEPHANIE AZRIELI ABRAHAM BARER NERI J. BLOOMFIELD BERNARD & IRMA BRODKIN BARBARA B. BRONFMAN CHARLES R. BRONFMAN LYNDA H. BRONFMAN MARSHA BRONFMAN MARJORIE BRONFMAN, C.M. JUSTINE BLOOMFIELD CARTIER MORRIE M. & DIANE COHEN MONROE & MINNIE ABBEY, C.M., Q.C. DOROTHY W. DORSEY ANNIE ADAMS CANTOR SIDNEY S. & YAEL DWORKIN WILLIAM & FANNY ARONOFF MATTHEW J. & MANDY FASSLER BENJAMIN & RAE BEUTEL, C.M. SHARRON FEIFER BERNARD M. BLOOMFIELD GEOFFREY GELBER LOUIS BLOOMFIELD, Q.C. NAHUM GELBER, Q.C. & DR. SHEILA GELBER EDWARD BRONFMAN STEPHEN GLASS GERALD BRONFMAN SYLVIA GOLTMAN PETER BRONFMAN MORRIS & ROSALIND GOODMAN SAIDYE BRONFMAN, O.B.E. PHILIP & TAMARA GREENBERG MAXWELL CUMMINGS, C.M. & SIDNEY & AVIVA KASTNER VICTORIA (QUEENIE) CUMMINGS CAROL KOFFLER LOUIS DORSEY E. LEO KOLBER, O.C. MARK A. FEIFER IRENE KORDA NATHAN & SYLVIA GELBER DAVID & SANDRA LYONS HENRY & NETTYE GREENBERG BARRY & KARYS MARCUS DONALD A. GOLTMAN THE HAZZAN MENDELSON FAMILY DR. BRAHM & RACHEL HYAMS MR. & MRS. MORRIS MILLER S. LADDIE & EDYTHE KERT BERNARD & ANNE PALEVSKY JACOB I. & IDA KRAMINER MYER & DIANE RICHLER BERNARD LANDE & MILDRED LANDE, C.M. ALAN & MARIAN SCHAUBER BERTHA LIPPER CHARLES & ROZ SCHWARTZ DUDLEY N. MENDELS NESSIA SCHWARTZ THE HONORABLE LAZARUS PHILLIPS, O.B.E., Q.C., L.L.D. ALVIN CRAMER SEGAL, C. M. MAX & JUTTA SCHUCHMANN DR. BERNARD & LOIS SHAPIRO MORTIMER SCHWARTZ RABBI DR.WILFRED & MIRIAM SHUCHAT DR. PHYLLIS SHAPIRO DR. CHARLES & CONSTANCE SOLOMON JACK & DEBORAH TIETOLMAN MERLE STERN PHILIP VINEBERG, O.C., Q.C. MIRIAM S. VINEBERG VITA WEINTRAUB BARBARA WIESENFELD PROFESSOR BARRY WIESENFELD

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Hazzan Nathan Mendelson, zl Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, 1957

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SPECIAL THANKS TO
Penni Kolb, Executive Director and her staff Michael Carreiro Arlene Scher Jos Dos Santos, Tanya Mendes and their staff

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special video sequence...Neil Oakshott Video Editor...Ari Grunzeweig Sound...Roger Jay Sound Recording...James Clemens-Seely Lighting...Adam Feldstain Live Video...Chriz Miller Lighting & Audio Visual Equipment...Kostar Program book....Paul Rosenbaum

Producer and Director.... Stephen Glass

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