Dear Temple Sinai Community,
It is with deep gratitude that I share with you my decision to retire as Temple Sinai's Senior Cantor. These decisions are always challenging to make, but in consultation with my family, this feels like the right timing for me. My official date of retirement will be June 30, 2023. Upon my retirement I will have had the sacred privilege to serve the Temple Sinai community for 29 years. This service plus my six years at Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, CA, represents a 35-year career as an ordained cantor.
The vibrant Temple Sinai community has brought me tremendous fulfillment in my work. Through the years of my tenure, you have shared your hearts with me from moments of tremendous joy, deep sadness, and everything in between.
I am blessed to have had the opportunity to collaborate with our exceptional clergy and senior staff teams, past and present. I have been enriched tremendously by our shared study time, pastoral work, mutual support, activism, and friendship.
I am also grateful for the support of my talented music committee. Together, we have soared on wings of song as we presented special music services and exciting musical events. I have also been blessed to be able to work with a talented volunteer adult choir, as well as amazing teen and junior choirs.
Endings are never easy. But our tradition teaches that they are just as important as beginnings. As we learn from our sages, “It is not up to us to complete the work; but each of us must do our share.”
I so value my time and relationships at Temple Sinai. But the season of change has arrived. As I move into retirement, I look forward to exploring new possibilities in music, the arts and beyond.
May this Temple Sinai community continue to go from strength to strength! With love and respect,
