Student Cantor Alexis Konigsberg

Beth Jacob is pleased to welcome Alexis Konigsberg as our Student Cantor for 2008-09. Alexis will serve as our Cantor for the High Holidays and for six weekends throughout the school year. She succeeds Cantor Rebecca Carl, who ably filled this position for two years and received her ordination as Cantor on May 22.
 
Alexis hails from Palm Beach, Florida and is a lifelong Conservative Jew. She received Bachelor's Degrees from both Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2006 and expects to receive her cantorial ordination from JTS in 2010. She is currently the treasurer of the Cantorial Students Association and a Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutor at Congregation Shaaray Tefila in Manhattan. She was the High Holiday Cantor at Congregation B'nai Zion in Chattanooga, Tenn. last year. This summer, she will be doing a Clinical Pastoral Education course at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York.
 
You can listen to samples of Alexis' cantorial art here:

Kol Nidre  Yedid Nefesh   Shochen Ad   Lecha Dodi

Because Alexis will be in fairly close proximity this summer and Rosh Hashanah is at the end of September, we would like to try and organize a small choir to perform a small number of pieces during the High Holidays and throughout the year. If you are interested in being part of this choir, please let Rabbi Arian or the synagogue office know. Alexis is also interested in helping congregants learn or improve their Torah and Haftarah skills, so again, if interested, please contact Rabbi Arian.