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New Cantor Coming to Har Sinai Temple

By Temple PR
          HAR SINAI WELCOMES NEW CANTOR
       Hopewell Twp. – Har Sinai Temple will welcome Cantor Leon Sher to its congregation on July 6 with a 7 p.m. Shabbat service in his honor.
        Invested as a cantor in 2003 at New York’s Hebrew Union College, Sher comes to Har Sinai from Temple Shalom in Aberdeen, N.J., where he also served as cantor.
      Sheer is a faculty member of the North American Jewish Choral Festival and a conductor, accompanist, composer and arranger for chapters of HaZamir, an international Jewish High School Choir. The cantor’s compositions include “Heal Us Now”, which was performed at a U.S. Congressional Memorial and Healing Service for the victims of the Arizona shooting.
       Cantor Sher has extensive experience as a choral director, music teacher, song leader and B’nai Mitzvah tutor. He is a current and founding member of Beged Kefet, a Jewish music group which donates the proceeds from their performances and recordings to Myriam’s Dream, an organization that raises funds and consciousness for the benefit of the elderly and disabled.
     Sher’s role will be an important one at Har Sinai since his duties will include leading the congregation in prayer along with Rabbi Stuart Pollack, since music is a major part of Jewish prayer services.