Episode 23: Training Your Cantor
Matt & Penny talk with Cantor Nancy Abramson, the director of the Cantorial School at JTS, about the state of modern cantorial education and how thing...
Two Cantors Walk into a Bar
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Hang out with Cantor Matt and Cantor Penny as they enjoy a couple of drinks and chat about current issues facing clergy and their roles as Jewish community leaders. They joke and banter in a spontaneous and unscripted discussion. Pull up a barstool and join the conversation.
Episode 22: Changing the Way We Look at B‘nai Mitzvah
Matt & Penny shamelessly plug Matt's latest book while talking about why the b'nei mitzvah process has remained unchanged for generations and what cou...
Episode 21: Emerging from the Pandemic
Matt & Penny talk about taking their first steps out of the pandemic and what changes from the past year that they'd like to keep.
Episode 20: Meet the Spouses!
Matt & Penny welcome their spouses Dr. Tali Axelrod and Dr. Bennett Myers who share their experiences of what it's like being married to a cantor. Als...
Episode 19: A Tale of Two Titles
Matt & Penny talk with Rabbi/Cantor Hillary Chorny about the increasingly common trend of colleagues earning both rabbinical and cantorial degrees. Al...
Episode 18: New Year's Resolutions
Matt & Penny talk about their New Year's resolutions and how best to continue their professional lives while dealing with the pandemic. Also available...
Episode 17: Making an Impression with Jim Meskimen
Matt & Penny sit down with master impressionist Jim Meskimen for some hilarious takes on synagogue life. Also available as a video episode HERE.
Episode 16: B'nei Mitzvah in the Age of Pandemic
Matt & Penny continue their social distancing and enjoy drinks remotely as they talk about how their congregations' bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies hav...
Episode 15: Quarantined!
Matt & Penny are forced to share a drink remotely as they talk about how the "new normal" has affected their congregations. Also posted as a video epi...
Episode 14: Cool Things That We've Done
Matt & Penny talk about all the interesting, cool, and exciting things they've gotten to do just because they're cantors.