Kol Jeshurun Temple B'nai Jeshurun

Cantor Lucy Fishbein of TBJ sits down for a conversation with her teacher, Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller. Cantor Schiller has been a professor at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for 35+ years and is a prolific composer in her own right. She is on the verge of retiring from her post as the Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual and Professor of Cantorial Arts and shares her reflections on her career and the evolution of the cantorate in the 4 decades of her career!

Senior Cantor Emeritus Howard M. Stahl shares his thoughts on TBJ's 175 years.

Jen Biegelsen joined Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz to discuss his new book 'To Build a Brave Space: The Making of a Spiritual First Responder'.
Here is the conversation that took place on Friday December 2, 2022 at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun.

Congregant Rachel Braverman shares her courageous journey through discovering and overcoming breast cancer.
Originally delivered October 5th, 2022 at Temple B'nai Jeshurun during the Yom Kippur Afternoon Healing Service.

Congregational friend Jill Goldstein shares her heart breaking 9.11 loss, her healing renewal in newfound love, and all in the context of her relationship with God and her Jewish faith.

A lifelong educator from Newark, New Jersey's South Ward, Charity Haygood speaks on social and economic justice in the context of biblical enslavement and wandering. Haygood asks from our Liturgy, “When will redemption come? When we grant everyone what we claim for ourselves.”
Originally aired during Shabbat services in the Summer of 2021.
Produced and edited by Matt Turk, TBJ's music director.
Theme Music by Matt Turk.