This is a video I spliced together on VHS in 2005 and sold in front of shul for 20$ on the Sunday night of Chanukah as the people exited .  It is also the first video I posted online. It all started with this!

A Shabbos Staple. Chazan Shulman of Greatneck Synagogue I hope to post many more from our beloved Shul Choir to keep a balance between social, historical, musical and minhag-related posts. The Breuer’s Choir in the Eighties was not “artsy-smartsy”, but it was the most authentically “shul” in nature. 1) It sang (and still does) EVERY […]

My humorous extended family sing an alternate Basel version of the Boruch Habo Hymeneal….with some joking around!

From one of Rabbi Chazan Lieber’s beloved records. This Maoz Tzur has a Chazan’s solo in the second and fourth stanza. I am informed by a viewer that a famous chazan named Israel Alter performed it this way too.  

From Basel TV a special on Jewish life in Basel, Switzerland. This clip shows the Chanukah candle lighting with Cantor Isachar Helman. Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair useCopyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright is a use permitted […]

Singing with KAJ Choir some 8 months before his passing. Yehi Zichro Baruch.

From the Choir of KAJ concert 1955. Recording provided to my father by Mr. Joseph Katzenstien a’H. Featuring the Chazan “Siggi” Selig a’H Gmar Tov.

Chazan Isachar Helllmann and the choir of the IGB Synagogue in Basel Switzerland sing the Boruch Habo hymenial with shuls of Switzerland and scenery.