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Adult Education

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Death But Were Afraid To Ask
  • Flyer 
  • Syllabus 
• Hebrew Calligraphy Class
• Care of Congregations: Bikkur Cholim Class
  • Flyer
  • Powerpoint 
• Torah Cantillation
• Torah on Tap

B/Mitzvah and Children’s Education

• Updated Bar Mitzvah Handbook Designed with Graphic Designer, Deborah Frost
• 5th / 6th Grade Curriculum Spreadsheet with links to instructional recordings and Videos
• Bnai Mitzvah Project Examples from Google Form Intake

Shabbat and Holiday Programming

• MLC2030 (20s 30s group that is regularly attended) Havdallah in the Sukkah at Cantor Rosner’s house
• Debbie Friedman Yahrzeit Service and Script 
• Classical Ensemble Friday Night Live 
• Roots Shabbat with Sephardic Music and Guest Speakers, Israeli Rabbi Hanan and Palestinian Noor Awad Scholars in Residence
• Jewgrass Shabbat 
• Tu B’Shvat Powerpoint Including Original Artwork for Song Session
• Rabbi Capers Funnye (Cheif Rabbi of the Israelite Board of Rabbis) Scholar In Residence
• Tisha B’Av and Chanting of Megillat Eicha
• Shabbat in the Park
• Cantor and Friends: Shabbat with Cantors and Soloists from Across the Country over Zoom
  • Cantor Faith Steinsnyder
  • Cantor Rita Glassman
  • Cantor Melissa Berman
  • Soloist Mirie Manor
• Sephardic Shabbat Service

Children’s Prayer

• Shababababa
• Blessing of Animals
• Pet Shababababa —
• Tot Shabbat 
• Tel Aviv Themed Shababababa
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  • recording

Concerts

• A Journey Through Sephardic Music
• Flyer (Davis, CA Scholar in Residence)
• Powerpoint 
• Omkar Shalom: Music and Poetry of Love and Devotion from Indian and Jewish Traditions 
• Music With Friends: An Intercultural Musical Experience 
• JJam – Open Mic at Kosher Dunkin Donuts

Confronting Covid Programming and Correspondences

• Letter to congregation at beginning of COVID Stay at Home Order while I was serving as primary clergy while Rabbi was on Sabbatical 
• A Covid Inspired Collaboration: Virtual Choir Collaboration with Composer and two choirs over 3000 miles with 3,800 Facebook Views. 
• “Talk Jewish With Me” Zoom Programming during COVID

Academic Articles

• Monograph with guitar accompaniment arrangements of liturgical music published “The Unlimited Potential of Guitar in Synagogue Music”. Symposium, “Hallel V’Zmirah” at The University of Chicago at through the Kaplan Center.
• “Selective Use of the Guitar as Accompanying Instrument,” Journal of Synagogue Music, September 2015 
• Interviewed as expert and did editorial work for Acoustic Guitar Magazine October 2018 Issue, “Is the Acoustic Guitar God’s Favorite Instrument?”

Sermon, Eulogy and Directory Article

• H. C. Eulogy 
• Directory Article from 2017 Introducing MLC2030 Young Adult Group and Programming. 
• Instruction Manual of the Cohen Historically Describing Sacrifices in the Torah from Exodus 25- Leviticus 10.

Choir Composition: Hashkiveinu

 

Fundraisers

• Collaboration Concert with Sacramento Guitar Society, Murial Anderson
• Music Lessons at Mosaic Law Congregation

World Judaism Programming

• Samuel Thomas Musicologist and Oud Instrumentalist, Scholar In Residence Weekend and Shabbat in Collaboration with Sacramento Guitar Society
  • Flyer
  • Syllabus
• Yemenite Shabbat Morning Service and Lunch
• Hazzan Dardashti Persian Scholar in Residence Weekend and Shabbat Services 
• Karaite Judaism Scholar in Residence Shawn Lichaa Scholar in Residence

GLBTQ+ MLC Pride Group

• MLC Pride (LGBTQ+) Havdallah and Game Night
• Pride Shabbat