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Harvard to HUC to Emanuel

Elizabeth Sacks, looking more like a mother dropping off her child off at religious school than the next senior cantor at Temple Emanuel, nestles into a corner seat in the Feiner Chapel. Today she’s reminiscing. Her place on the bimah is empty. Yet intimations of music cling to her unsung words. Sacks, 34, who was hired as Emanuel’s part-time cantor in 2012, will occupy the top spot when the Reform congregation’s longtime Cantor Regina Heit retires in January, 2016. “I sang from the time I was tiny — I was always, always singing,” she laughs before sharing an embarrassing story from the distant past. “Once while I was little, my father took me to the men’s room. For 12 minutes, I sang any song I […]
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