Noa Schwartz, and their four children in our community. Park Avenue Synagogue is honored to have Cantor Azi Schwartz, his wife Dr. Dedicated to cultivating the next generation of cantors, Azi serves on faculty of all major cantorial schools, and serves as Treasurer for the Cantors’ Assembly, the largest professional organization for cantors. He has released nine studio albums containing traditional and newly commissioned Jewish liturgical music. He played the role of the cantor in Richard Gere's movie "Norman" and performs in concerts and interfaith missions around the world.Īzi has an astounding online following. During Pope Francis’s visit to New York in October 2015, Cantor Schwartz represented the Jewish people at the multi-religious service at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. In 2018, Azi was featured in a PBS special titled “The New York Cantors,” which brought cantorial music to millions of viewers across the US and in Europe. Passionate to bring Jewish liturgy to the broader world, Azi has performed at Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, Madison Square Garden, the US Capitol Rotunda, and the Israeli Knesset. Following distinguished predecessors, including Cantor David Lefkowitz, Cantor Schwartz creates, records, and publishes new liturgical music, as well as hosts world-class guest artists for concerts and worship. Since 2009, Azi serves as cantor at Park Avenue Synagogue, the largest Conservative community in NYC and the flagship of Jewish liturgical music in North America. After graduating from the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute and studying under the top cantors in the world, Azi continued studying music, earning a Masters in Classical Singing and Conducting from Mannes School of Music in New York. His grandfather, also a cantor, inspired Azi to pursue his passion and inclination for singing and music. His craft of Jewish liturgical music has been described as emotionally moving, spiritually uplifting, and artistically dynamic.Īzi grew up in a traditional community in Israel. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world.Cantor Azi Schwartz is a world-renowned vocal performer and recording artist whose music reaches both Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally. Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis - including paralysis and even death - thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. >Īlthough Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by in 2015 and posted on YouTube. Ma tovu ohalekha ya·akov mishk’notekha yisrael. We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews! Ma Tovu by Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue, released 11 March 2021. Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
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