Cantor Abrasha Robofsky Z”L, Cantor Susan Berkson, Rabbi Cantor Gershon Silins, Cantor Rosalie Will, Cantor Lindsay Kanter
On Friday March 21 2025 we will host a special Shabbat service to honor the five cantors who served Temple Emanuel for the past seven decades. We are thrilled Cantor Lindsay Kanter, Rabbi Cantor Gershon Silins, and Cantor Rosalie Will will be in attendance that night as well as Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser and Rabbi Emeritus Warren Stone.
Dinner at 5:30pm, $36/person. (RSVP required by Monday March 17)
Enjoy dinner with our Cantors catered by local Kensington restaurant Talia’s Cuzina.
If you have any difficulty with online registration, please contact the Temple office at 301.942.2000 or via email.
Service at 6:30pm, followed by an oneg
We thank current and former members of our Kol Zimrah choir for their sponsorship of the oneg.
To contribute to this sponsorship, please click HERE
For those who wish to express their appreciation and support for the Cantors and the Temple’s music programs, contributions may be made to the Byer Jewish Enrichment Fund at Temple Emanuel.
This fund was created as a bequest from the estate of Myrna Rosen Byer who was actively involved at Temple Emanuel from the 1990’s until her untimely death in 2008. She loved participating in the Temple Choir and was involved in the Capital Campaign Building Project of 1998-1999, which saw the construction of HaMakom, the Administrative Offices, the Lobby with elevator, and the school areas. She served as President of the Congregation from 2002-2004. After her term as president, Myrna was on the Board of the URJ.
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If you have any difficulties with online donations, please contact the Temple office at 301.942.2000 or via email. Checks can be mailed to Temple Emanuel (10101 Connecticut Avenue, Kensington MD 20895); please make out to Temple Emanuel and note in the memo line “Donation to Byer Jewish Enrichment Fund”
Over the past year Joyce Falk, Louise Harkavy, and Ellen Hoffman interviewed all the living cantors (and created a documentary video for Cantor Robofsky), assisted by David Wilson on our Tech Committee. They also interviewed Rabbi Emeritus Warren Stone, who worked with all of the cantors, and Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser. These interviews will be shared via a new webpage that will include highlights from their time at Temple Emanuel and musical recordings. A new permanent exhibition at Temple Emanuel will link to this digital tribute.
