Sherwood Goffin ’63 YC, ’66BZ, the cantor of Lincoln Square Synagogue on Manhattan’s West Side from 1965 until 2016 and a faculty member of the Philip and Sara Belz School of Jewish Music at Yeshiva University since 1987, died on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. He was 77 years old. In addition to being a teacher […]
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Cantor Sherwood Goffin of YU’s Belz School of Jewish Music Aims to Spark a New Generation of Ba’al Tefillahs
Lay leaders of Jewish prayer services anywhere in the world can learn the precise melodies and traditional format of the Shabbat prayers from a new MP3 CD, Be a Ba’al Tefillah, produced by Cantor Sherwood Goffin ‘63Y, ‘66 BZ, a faculty member of Yeshiva University’s Belz School of Jewish Music and cantor of Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City.