Erik Contzius | baritone, composer, cantor

Hazzanut and Jazz with the Afro-Semitic Experience

For those of you who missed the concert, please watch the highlights! More video to come! Highlights from the Afro-Semitic Experience Shomeir Yisrael Ashrei Rehearsal

I'm dreaming of a white... Hanukkah?

One of the most famous of Christmas songs is by a Jewish composer: Irving Berlin. I don't care what face tradition you grew up with; White Christmas is a terrific song and it makes me think of the season. But where are all the great Hanukkah songs? Where is the Jewish "White Christmas?"

Finding an “ultimate meaningful existence”

If the lives of our loved ones are to truly be a blessing, we must use this hour of Yizkor, of remembrance and memorial, and reflect on all that was good and enduring in their lives, and ensure that those cherished values are perpetuated to the next generation, and out into the world. More...

Slow to Anger

Moses had a daunting task of leading a community of “stiff-necked people.” It caused him great frustration and anger. Eventually that frustration would block him from entering the Promised Land. What is the Promised Land? That place in our hearts which feels but doesn’t consume us. It is a place of understanding and empathy. And it is a place where we might find wholeness and peace, if we just make the effort to become a little “slower to anger.” More...

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Hazzanut and Jazz with the Afro-Semitic Experience

I'm dreaming of a white... Hanukkah?

Finding an “ultimate meaningful existence”

Slow to Anger

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