Synagogues opt for technology over 'homegrown' talent for High Holidays

No longer constrained to people in the room or whichever visiting cantor they can fly in, communities are turning to outside talent over livestreams or video to improve their High Holidays services.

“We just didn’t think we could do it any better,” Cantor Steven Stoehr of Congregation Beth Shalom, above, in Northbrook, Ill., said of the Shirat Haruach High Holidays service package.

(photo credit: JTA)

BySHIRA HANAU/JTA

JULY 21, 2020 06:10

Synagogues opt for technology over 'homegrown' talent for High Holidays

No longer constrained to people in the room or whichever visiting cantor they can fly in, communities are turning to outside talent over livestreams or video to improve their High Holidays services.

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Synagogues opt for technology over 'homegrown' talent for High Holidays

No longer constrained to people in the room or whichever visiting cantor they can fly in, communities are turning to outside talent over livestreams or video to improve their High Holidays services.

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