Singing the Haggadah – European Academy for Jewish Liturgy

Sunday 3rd April 2022

Session I (12:00 - 13:15) - Join Chazan Stephen Robins with songs in the Anglo-Jewish tradition

Session II (14:00 - 15:15) - Join Rav Haim Ovadia with songs in the Baghdadi tradition

All times UK, adjust to your time zone.

כָּל דִכְפִין יֵיתֵי וְיֵיכֹל, כָּל דִצְרִיךְ יֵיתֵי וְיִפְסַח

Anyone who is famished should come and eat, anyone who is in need should come and partake of the Pesach sacrifice.

For many of us, this will be the first Pesach we are reconnecting with our families and communities since the pandemic. Come and join EAJL to get ready for your journey into freedom, both personal and communal, with two wonderful teachers from Sephardi and Ashkenazi heritages, who will share songs from the Haggadah in their respective traditions.

Meet the Teachers

	Cantor Stephen Robins is one of the longest-serving tutors on EAJL’s Ba’al T’fillah programme. He trained in the former Jews College and was awarded a Diploma in 1975. Chazan Steve continued to study voice and music and obtained the ARCM diploma from the Royal College of Music. He worked as a Chazan for the communities affiliated with the United Synagogue in the UK, and internationally for the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, Canada and other congregations in the United States.
	Rav Haim Ovadia is the founder of Sephardic U. He has learned the Babylonian Jewish liturgy from his grandfather, Hakham Shaul Fetaya, and from the renowned Hazzan Gurji Yair. He can trace his family back for a dozen generations of Baghdadi rabbis. Over the years, Rabbi Ovadia has collaborated with musicians and ethnomusicologists, in performing, teaching, and reviving the legacy of Sephardic liturgy in general and Babylonian liturgy in particular.

Cantor Stephen Robins is one of the longest-serving tutors on EAJL’s Ba’al T’fillah programme. He trained in the former Jews College and was awarded a Diploma in 1975. Chazan Steve continued to study voice and music and obtained the ARCM diploma from the Royal College of Music. He worked as a Chazan for the communities affiliated with the United Synagogue in the UK, and internationally for the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, Canada and other congregations in the United States.

Rav Haim Ovadia is the founder of Sephardic U. He has learned the Babylonian Jewish liturgy from his grandfather, Hakham Shaul Fetaya, and from the renowned Hazzan Gurji Yair. He can trace his family back for a dozen generations of Baghdadi rabbis.

Over the years, Rabbi Ovadia has collaborated with musicians and ethnomusicologists, in performing, teaching, and reviving the legacy of Sephardic liturgy in general and Babylonian liturgy in particular.

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