A Nusach based project with Beth Styles, producer, composer, and gifted musician. For years I have listened to lots of new music for the synagogue. I can appreciate the many new composers out there ...

Nusach means "version" and refers to the wording and style of prayer. Sephardi and Ashkenazi nusachim subdivide into groups such as Iraqi, Syrian, Italian, and even English. Rabbi Isaac Luria (the ...

Formal prayer, that musical and lyrical intersection between this world and the other, is as much science as art, as least for the cantor. There are rules, equations, let alone laws, but “most people ...

From down under in Melbourne, Australia, Lauren Wiener writes: “Could you please explain how ‘Nusach Sfard’ came to be the Nusach of some Ashkenazi Jews and why the family name Ashkenazi exists mostly ...

Lubavitch Chabad.