This summer we said goodbye to our teacher and friend, Rabbi Emeritus Gerald ‘Jerry’ Brieger, z”l. This special concert of the legendary Kol B’seder will honor the memory of this wonderful man, who has impacted numerous generations of TE members over nearly 40 years of dedicated service to this community. With this event we are establishing a new annual tradition of honoring Rabbi Jerry’s memory with a special musical event at TE.
There will be a special tribute booklet created for this event, and we very much look forward to opening our doors on the night of November 6 to members of the Greater New Haven Jewish community and beyond.
For more info and to get your tickets, please follow this link.
About our performers:
KOL B’SEDER
Authors of classic Jewish songs such as “Shalom Rav” and “Lo Alecha,” Cantor Jeff Klepper and Rabbi Dan Freelander have been singing together for 45 years. Their love of Jewish music began at summer camp in the late 1960s — a few years later Jeff and Dan, inspired by the late Debbie Friedman, were composing new melodies that would radically change the way Jews sing and pray. Today, their songs are woven into the fabric of synagogue worship around the world. Kol B’Seder has been a mainstay on the American Jewish scene for decades, erasing boundaries, uniting the Jewish community. A Kol B’Seder concert is the “ultimate Jewish sing-along,” an experience you, your family and friends, will never forget.
Rabbi Daniel Freelander is President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. He is a co-founder of the North American Jewish Choral Festival, and was honored with the Debbie Friedman Award by the Union for Reform Judaism in 2015.
Cantor Jeff Klepper has been the cantor of Temple Sinai of Sharon, MA since 2003. He is co-founder of the Hava Nashira workshop for song-leaders, and teaches at Hebrew College’s School of Jewish Music in Newton, MA.