About Cindy

Cindy has been song leading in Chicago’s Western Suburbs for 15 years, providing the music for Shabbat services, Family services, Tot Shabbat, Holiday services and programs, camps, retreats, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah services.

Cindy is currently serving as the song leader for Congregation Etz Chaim in Lombard. She is the music specialist and song leader for the religious school at Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue in Northbrook, and directs their children’s choir, Kolit. She also teaches music twice a month at Congregation Etz Chaim’s weekday Nursery School.

Cindy is a graduate of the 1995 Synagogue Leadership Institute and the 1995 Rabbinic Aid program, both sponsored by the URJ (Union for Reform Judaism). She is a 15 year veteran of Hava Nashira, the annual Song Leading and Music Conference held at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Cindy has studied her craft under the tutelage of the top names in American Jewish music.

Her teaching experience includes having taught in the religious school at Congregation Etz Chaim for 12 years, working with all grades pre-school through tenth. She served as the music specialist for the religious school at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, for 5 years.

She has worked for both the Chicago area BBYO and JCC Apache Camp. Her Rabbinic Aid work has included singing for community ecumenical services, holiday programs for nursing homes and convalescent centers and providing Jewish education at area churches and schools. She also teaches adult Hebrew classes at Etz Chaim.

She has produced three recordings of Jewish music; The Music of Shabbat; Around the Year, music for the holidays; and The Sound of Freedom, music for Passover.

For more information or to request a demo recording please contact Cindy at Cindym@xnet.com

Last Updated: June 26, 2008