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Musician, singer, composer, record-producer Jenni Asher to become America’s first ordained Black woman cantor. Jenni Asher’s third album’s 12 tracks are each Hebrew-titled, among theme “Savlanut” (“Patience”), “Isha” (“Woman”), “Simcha” (“Joy”), all sung and with instrumentation by Asher due to pandemic restrictions — violin, viola, cello, erhu, double bass and piano. She currently works as a cantorial soloist at Hamakom, a Los Angeles Conservative synagogue, while studying at the non-denominational Academy for Jewish Religion California. Upon graduation next year, she’ll most likely be the first Black American woman ordained as a cantor, and one of only two Black cantors in the US, says the other one, Cantor David Fair.
This is a long time coming. It is more than called for. Vayikra