Congregation Sinai and Congregation Shir Hadash are excited to collaborate on a special Musician in Residence Weekend on March 27 – 29, 2025. For the entire schedule, click here.

To Hold and Be Held, To Convene and Collaborate

This experiential workshop will explore strategies for harnessing the songful potential of any given room when serving as shaliach tzibbur - leader of communal prayer - with an eye towards both holding the community, and allowing them to hold us in return.

This event will be held at Congregation Sinai, from 7pm-8:30pm, 1532 Willowbrae Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125 (map)

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz serves the Hadar Institute as Director of Tefillah and Music, supporting communities and individuals who seek to deepen their practice of empowered song and connective prayer. An artist and composer, she has collaborated on over two dozen albums of new Jewish music with treasured colleagues, including two albums of her own original music: The Narrow and the Expanse (2020) and Yetzira (2023). 

https://www.sinai-sj.org/events/tefila-workshop-with-rabbi-deborah-sacks-mintz