Beth Jacob is pleased to welcome Alexis
Konigsberg back for her second year as our Student Cantor for 2009-10. Alexis
will serve as our Cantor for the High Holidays and for six weekends throughout
the school year.
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. before coming to Beth
Jacob last year.
You can listen to samples of
Alexis' cantorial art here: