Yom Ha'atzmaut Concert

Am Yisrael Chai!  
Musical guests: Cantor Sidney Ezer and Asher Farber

Please join us in celebrating Israel’s 76th birthday, and enjoy a concert featuring beloved Hebrew, Yiddish and English songs. Feel free to dress in blue and white, traditional kosher Israeli treats will be served. This in-person event is presented in collaboration with the Israeli Canadian project, and is generously supported by UJA Federation’s Emerging Communities Committee and Mosaic United.

Thursday May 16
Concert: 1:00-2:30pm
Refreshments: 2:30-3:00pm
Admission: $10

Born and raised in Toronto, Sidney Ezer is privileged to be serving as the Beth Tzedec Congregation Cantor for the past 9 years. Having an Ashkenazi as well as an Iraqi Jewish background, Cantor Ezer has striven to study and share with others the beauty of various Jewish musical traditions. He is able to chant Torah in the Ashkenazi, Baghdadi, Moroccan, Yerushalmi, and Spanish Portuguese traditions, and often incorporates diverse melodies in his davening. Cantor Ezer is currently part of the close harmony quartet “The Wizards of Ashkenaz”, formed with three of his fellow graduates from cantorial school. They periodically perform concerts which feature various Jewish musical styles, from cantorial to Israeli pop, Yiddish, Sephardic, comedy, and even Jewish Blues.

Asher Farber is a freelance pianist, collaborator and teacher. Currently the conductor for the MNjcc Daytime Choir, Asher began working at the Miles Nadal 6 years ago, accompanying the Daytime Choir under the baton of Gillian Stecyk. Asher is also the accompanist for the MNjcc Community Choir. Although Asher is classically trained, educated, and inspired, he regularly collaborates alongside many different soloists, singers, instrumentalists, ensembles, and bands in many different musical styles.

Cantor Ezer and Asher have performed together at several Adult Daytime events, including Celebrating the Poetry of Simcha Simchovitch, Celebrating Shabbat in Song, and the spring 2021 virtual concert Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Songs of the Ghettos, Camps and Resistance. We are overjoyed to welcome them back to our building this spring!