High Holiday Cantor/Cantorial Soloist

Kehillath Shalom Synagogue seeks a cantor/cantorial soloist to co-lead our High Holiday services in the fall of 2025. You would provide significant musical leadership in the services using both traditional nusach and contemporary melodies. Our liturgy contains some solo pieces and our cantorial soloist must also be able to engage our community in singing. The rabbi gives the sermons and kavanot. About 50-75 people attend our main services, with fewer on the second day of Rosh Hashanah and at Neilah. We use the Reconstructionist machzor along with our own congregational music supplement. Kehillath Shalom Synagogue is a small Reconstructionist Synagogue on the North Shore of Long Island. We are accessible, spiritual, and have meaningful services. We highlight key prayers from the services with a variety of kavannot, readings, meditations, and songs. High Holiday services are also participatory;Ncongregants share selected readings with the kahal, do the haftarah readings, and sing in the chorus. We are open to the community by donation and, as a result, many of our participants are long-term attendees who are not members. Our cantorial soloist will have: the ability to work closely with the rabbi and lay leaders in a cooperative, professional manner, significant experience leading group singing, a strong singing voice. & knowledge of and comfort with singing Hebrew liturgy. Kehillath Shalom’s services for the Days of Awe are as follows: RH1 Evening – ~2 hours, RH 1 and rh2 Morning ~3 hours each, Kol Nidre – ~2 hours, YK Morning – ~4 hours & YK Neilah – ~2 hours. We can pay $5000 travel and lodging expenses. We are open to negotiation about number of services, travel, and lodging. Rabbi Lina Zerbarini, 203-915-4786, [email protected]. www.kehillathshalomsynagogue.org.

(6/1/25)